Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance - Rilegato

Feerick, Jean E.

 
9781442641402: Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance
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ISBN 10: 1442641401 ISBN 13: 9781442641402
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2010

Sinossi

Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy.

Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood tracks the widespread cultural concern that moving out of England would adversely affect the temper and complexion of the displaced individual, changes that could be fought only through willed acts of self-discipline. In emphasizing the decline of blood as found at the centre of colonial narratives, Feerick illustrates the unwitting disassembling of one racial system and the creation of another.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Jean E. Feerick is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Brown University.

Jean E. Feerick is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Brown University.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1442641401
ISBN 13 
9781442641402
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
272
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