Things of darkness : economies of race and gender in early modern England /

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The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"--Allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual polit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hall, Kim F., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
1500-1700
Geschichte 1550-1650.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Feminism and literature > England.
Literature and society > England.
Sex role in literature.
Black people in literature.
Race dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Littérature et société > Angleterre.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Feminism and literature.
Literature and society.
Women and literature.
Literatur
Beeldvorming.
England.
Englisch.
English literature > Special subjects > Race relations > History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A World of Difference: Travel Narratives and the Inscription of Culture
  • 2. Fair Texts/Dark Ladies: Renaissance Lyric and the Poetics of Color
  • 3. "Commerce and Intercourse": Dramas of Alliance and Trade
  • 4. The Daughters of Eve and the Children of Ham: Race and the English Woman Writer
  • 5. "An Object in the Midst of Other Objects": Race, Gender, Material Culture
  • Epilogue: Oil "Race," Black Feminism, and White Supremacy
  • Appendix: Poems of Blackness.

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