Writing race across the Atlantic world
Subtitle: medieval to modern
By: edited by Philip D. Beidler and Gary Taylor.
Contributors: Beidler, Philip D.; Taylor, Gary, 1953-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Slavery -- America -- History -- Congresses.; Racism -- America -- History -- Congresses.; Racism -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses.; Acculturation -- America -- History -- Congresses.; Racism in literature -- Congresses.; English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; American literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; America -- Race relations -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Race relations -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This study comprises a set of lively, diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period. Working across institutional boundaries of "American" and "British" literature in this period, as well as between "history" and "literature", ten essays address the ways in which cultural categories of "race"--Brown, red, and white, African-American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English and Celtic, native American and northern European, creole and mestizo - were constructed and adapted by early modern writers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers from a symposium held at the University of Alabama in 2001.