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Women and race in early modern texts / Joyce Green MacDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonald, Joyce Green, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Race in literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--17th century.
- English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Women & Race in Early Modern Texts
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Joyce Green MacDonald discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. She examines the scarcity of African women in English plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the racial identity of the women in the drama and also that of the women who watched and sometimes wrote the plays. The coverage also includes texts from the late fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, by, among others, Shakespeare, Jonson, Davenant, the Countess of Pembroke, and Aphra Behn. MacDonald articulates many of her discussions of early modern women's races through a comparative method, using insights drawn from critical race theory, women's history, and contemporary disputes over canonicity, multiculturalism, and Afrocentrism. Seeing women as identified by their race and social standing as well as by their sex, this book will add depth and dimension to discussions of women's writing and of gender in Renaissance literature.
- Contents:
- Introduction: women, race, and Renaissance texts
- Cleopatra: whiteness and knowledge
- Sex, race, and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
- Dido and Sophonisba of Carthage: marriage, race, and the bonds between men
- The disappearing African woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko after Behn
- Race, women, and the sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko
- Chaste lines: writing and unwriting race in Katherine Philips' Pompey
- The queen's minion: sexual difference, racial difference, and Aphra Behn's Abdelazer
- Conclusion: "The efficacy of Imagination."
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12508-1
- 1-280-16334-8
- 0-511-12008-7
- 0-511-04214-0
- 0-511-15763-0
- 0-511-32975-X
- 0-511-48372-4
- 0-511-04497-6
- OCLC:
- 56315307
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