Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other,”

According to him, unlike non-white Others such as Moors, Indians, Jews, or Turks whose humanity was recognized by the English even when they were denigrated, black people were not seen as humans. [...]Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama undertakes to study representations of black people...

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Published inMedieval & Renaissance Drama in England Vol. 32; pp. 253 - 256
Main Author Ndiaye, Noémie
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cranbury Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp DBA Associated University Presses 01.01.2019
Associated University Presses
Subjects
Chapman, Matthieu
Civil society
D Avenant, William, Sir (1606-1668)
Drake, Francis (1540?-1596)
Drama
Dramaturgy
Early Modern English
Early modern period
Gender
History
Intersectionality
Jewish people
Literary characters
Literary devices
Nonfiction
Ontology
Race
Racism
Reviews
Slavery
Subjectivity
Theater
United Kingdom > UK
England
Peru
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Summary:According to him, unlike non-white Others such as Moors, Indians, Jews, or Turks whose humanity was recognized by the English even when they were denigrated, black people were not seen as humans. [...]Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama undertakes to study representations of black people in isolation from other nonwhite ethnic groups, despite the pervasive overlaps characterizing the lexicons, representational strategies, and prosthetic techniques used to depict them in early modern English theater. According to Chapman, blackness uniquely fulfilled a psychic need for an early modern English population that was just starting to produce notions of subjectivity based on binary oppositions. [...]at the subconscious level, the early modern English saw themselves as humans and subjects by contrast with black people long before the development of the transatlantic slave trade.
ISSN:0731-3403