Race and rhetoric in the renaissance [Elektronisk resurs] Barbarian errors / Ian Smith.

• Introduction: Barbarous African, Barbarous English, and the Transactions of Race * Classical Precedents * Race in Perspective * Barbarian Genealogies * Instructing the English Nation * Shakespeare's Africans: Performing Cultural Whiteness * Epilogue: Imperialism's Legacy, or the "Language of the Criminal".

• This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African. -- This book examines sixteenth-century English representations of the "barbarous" African and argues that these representations were a a scapegoating to ease English anxiety regarding its own marginality. 

Ämnesord

Blacks in literature.  (LCSH)

Africans in literature.  (LCSH)

Race in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700. (LCSH)

Rhetoric  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Renaissance  -- England. (LCSH)

Rhetoric  -- History -- 16th century -- England. (LCSH)

Rhetoric  -- History -- 17th century -- England. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Klassifikation

LIT (ämneskategori)

820.9353 (DDC)