Barbarous play; race on the English Renaissance stage.

9780816649655

Barbarous play; race on the English Renaissance stage.

Bovilsky, Lara.

U. of Minnesota Press

2008

218 pages

$22.50

Paperback

PR658

Early modern racial logics have much in common with modern and contemporary ones, contends Bovilsky (English, U. of Oregon), most especially those elements that make racial identities unstable and incoherent. These include changing categories of racial affiliation based on figurative, contradictory, and invisible group distinctions of temperament, genealogy, or blood. Then as now, she says, borders between racial groups are often produced by the very act of someone crossing them.

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