Writing Race Across the Atlantic World Medieval to Modern

by Beidler, Phillip; Taylor, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780312295974
• ISBN10: 0312295979
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Summary

Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, Medieval to Modern 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.

Author Biography

Phillip Beidler is Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

Gary Taylor is Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama.

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface	vii
Introduction: E Pluribus Verum	1	(6)
Philip D. Beidler
Gary Taylor
Native Europeans and Native Americans	7	(70)
A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism, Hybridity, and Cultural Survival	9	(18)
Barbara Fuchs
Angells in America	27	(24)
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples	51	(26)
Gordon M. Sayre
Slavery and Race	77	(58)
Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism	79	(14)
Benjamin Braude
``Extravagant Viciousness'': Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon	93	(20)
Kim F. Hall
``Working Like a Dog'': African Labor and Racing the Human-Animal Divide in Early Modern England	113	(22)
Francesca Royster
Race and Culture	135	(52)
Fresh Produce	137	(16)
Joseph Roach
``Men to Monsters'': Civility, Barbarism, and ``Race'' in Early Modern Ireland	153	(18)
David J. Baker
Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Literary Mahometans	171	(16)
Philip D. Beidler
Notes on Contributors	187	(4)
Index	191