This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitatingEnglish tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African. INDICE: - 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'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-62045-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés