Bad blood : staging race between early modern England and Spain /

Bad Blood explores representations of race in early modern English and Spanish literature, especially drama. It addresses two different forms of racial ideology: one concerned with racialized religious difference--that is, the notion of having Jewish or Muslim "blood"--and one concerned wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weissbourd, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Series:Raceb4race.
Subjects:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race dans la littérature.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Black people in literature
English literature > Early modern
Race in literature
Slavery in literature
Spanish literature > Classical period
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. Race and the Idea of Spain in Early Modern English Studies
  • Chapter 1. "Pure Blood . . . Doesn't Cost a Thing": Performing Purity of Blood
  • Chapter 2. Translating Spain: Purity of Blood and Orientalism in Mabbe's Rogue and The Spanish Gypsy
  • Chapter 3. Blackness, Slavery, and Service in the Comedia
  • Chapter 4. "I Have Done the State Some Service": Moorishness and Slavery on the English Stage
  • Chapter 5. Staging the "Unrepresentable": Blackness, Blood, and Marriage in England and Spain
  • Conclusion. Beyond English Whiteness / Another Idea of Spain
  • Appendix 1. Survey of Black and Moorish Characters in English Plays
  • Appendix 2. Further Details on Black and Moorish Characters
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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