Strangers in Blood : Relocating Race in the Renaissance EPUB
by Jean E. Feerick
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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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- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2010
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- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
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- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
- Black & Asian studies
- ISBN:9781442660083
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Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:02/10/2010
-
Category:
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- Literary companions
- Fiction companions
- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
- Ethnic studies
- Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
- Black & Asian studies
- ISBN:9781442660083