Title Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors / Ian Smith

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Series Early modern cultural studies Early modern cultural studies. Contents 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." Summary "During the English Renaissance, the figure of the classical barbarian - identified by ineloquent speech that marked him as a cultural outsider - was recovered for stereotyping Africans. This book advances the idea that language, and not only color and religion, functioned as an important racial code. This study also reveals that way in which England's strategic projection of a "barbarous" language was meant to enhance its own image at the expense of the early modern African. Ian Smith makes use of the sixteenth-century preoccupation with language rehabilitation to tell the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racial scapegoating."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Race in literature. Black people in literature Africans in literature. Renaissance -- England Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 16th century Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 17th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Africans in literature Black people in literature English literature -- Early modern Race in literature Renaissance Rhetoric Literatur England Englisch. Schwarze (Motiv) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History dissertations. Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230102064 0230102069 9781282765146 1282765140

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