Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance [electronic resource] : Barbarian Errors /
Smith, I.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Barbarous African, Barbarous English, and the Transactions of Race; Chapter 1: Classical Precedents; Chapter 2: Race in Perspective; Chapter 3: Barbarian Genealogies; Chapter 4: Instructing the English Nation; Chapter 5: Shakespeare's Africans: Performing Race in Early Modern England; Epilogue: Imperialism's Legacy, or the ""Language of the Criminal""; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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.
Literature, Modern.
Civilization—History.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Applied linguistics.
Great Britain—History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Cultural History.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.
Applied Linguistics.
History of Britain and Ireland.