Speaking of the Moor: from Alcazar to Othello
On sitting down to read Othello once again -- Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World' -- Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa -- 'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest -- Too many...
| Summary: | On sitting down to read Othello once again -- Enter Barbary: The battle of Alcazar and 'the World' -- Imperialist beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the place and displacement of Africa -- 'Incorporate in Rome': Titus Andronicus and the consequence of conquest -- Too many blackamoors: deportation, discrimination, and Elizabeth I -- Banishing 'all the Moors': Lust's dominion and the story of Spain -- Cultural traffic: The history and description of Africa and the unmooring of the Moor -- The 'stranger of here and everywhere': Othello and the Moor of Venice |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [227] - 241) and index |
| Physical Description: | VIII, 252 S., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-8122-4076-6 0-8122-2101-X 978-0-8122-2101-5 978-0-8122-4076-4 |
