Worlds Apart

Race in the Modern Period

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Long before the physical advent of Blacks in Europe, Professor Dathorne asserts they featured over and over again in literature as marginalized Others, but rarely were real Blacks present. As English developed as a language, race came into the evolution of the signifiers, so that words like darkness, blackness, and so on became heavily charged with negative connotations.Using travel literature as well as figures on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and material from later writers, Dathorne shows how negative elements surrounding Blackness were transferred to Native Americans, to Indians from India, to South Pacific islanders, and others. A provocative analysis for scholars, students, and researchers involved with Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, and race.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-02-28
Mått157 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt533 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780897897228

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O. R. DATHORNE is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He directs the Association of Caribbean Studies and has been the editor of the Journal of Caribbean Studies for two decades. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Economics. He is the author of more than one hundred learned articles, short stories, poems, plays, and scholarly works, including The Black Mind, Dark Ancestor, In Europe's Image: The Need for American Multiculturalism, Imagining the World: Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters, and Asian Voyages: Two Thousand Years of Constructing the Other.

Introduction The "Trace" of Orality New World/Old Word: Viewed, Visionary, Verbal, & Visual in the Construction of Text "To Wash an Ethiop White": Royalty, Gender and Race Talking Indian: Written Hegemony and Oral Native American Narration (Re)Placing the Wor(l)d: The Search for the "Half Sign" Imagining Africa: Space as Myth and Reality Africa in Europe: Binaries and Polarities Inventing Diaspora: African Cultural Extensions When Nomads Go Home: Inventing a Third Space Interacting at the Margins: When Race is Class is Gender Bibliography Index