Things of Darkness : : Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England / / Kim F. Hall.
The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 27 black-and white illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A World of Difference: Travel Narratives and the Inscription of Culture
- 2. Fair Texts/Dark Ladies: Renaissance Lyric and the Poetics of Color
- 3. "Commerce and Intercourse": Dramas of Alliance and Trade
- 4. The Daughters of Eve and the Children of Ham: Race and the English Woman Writer
- 5. "An Object in the Midst of Other Objects": Race, Gender, Material Culture
- Epilogue: On "Race," Black Feminism, and White Supremacy
- Appendix: Poems of Blackness
- Works Cited
- Index