Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance
ISBN: 9780230102064
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection;

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.

IAN SMITH is Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College and has published on early modern drama as well as postcolonial literature.

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