Re-Historicizing Race, White Melancholia, and the Shakespearean Property
| Autor: | Arthur L. Little |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Literature
History White (horse) Property (philosophy) Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject New Historicism 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies Literacy 060104 history Race (biology) Early modern period 0602 languages and literature 0601 history and archaeology business Resistance (creativity) Period (music) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Shakespeare Quarterly. 67:84-103 |
| ISSN: | 1538-3555 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/shq.2016.0018 |
| Popis: | Is Shakespeare or the Renaissance/early modern period white property? My asking about whiteness as a Shakespearean or early modern property is not just about the instrumentality of whiteness in the period but also about whether there’s a working assumption in the field, one of the “unspeakable things unspoken,” not simply that the early modern period isn’t about race but that it is also, as a field, white property. This essay seeks to make salient what it argues is a “white melancholia,” a whiteness signifying outside the bounds of race, operating in much of the critical resistance to Shakespeare and early modern studies. It attends especially to how New Historicism has shaped our understanding of early modern race and has obscured a thriving racial literacy in Shakespeare and the early modern period. |
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