Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors

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Title:

Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors

Author:

Smith, Ian, 1957 June 9-

ISBN:

9780230620452

Personal Author:

Smith, Ian, 1957 June 9-

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

Physical Description:

231 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies 1500-1700

Subject Term:

English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.

Race in literature.

Blacks in literature.

Africans in literature.

Renaissance -- England.

Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 16th century.

Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 17th century.

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This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African.

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