Race and rhetoric in the renaissance: barbarian errors
Auteur :
Smith, I.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230620452
Date de publication :
13 janv. 2010
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.