Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Bad Blood offers a new account of early modern race by tracing the development of European racial vocabularies from Spain to England. Dispelling assumptions, stemming from Spain's historical exclusion of Jews and Muslims, that premodern racial ideology focused on religious difference and purity of blood more than color, Emily Weissbourd argues that the context of the Atlantic slave trade is indispensable to understanding race in early modern Spanish and English literature alike. Through readings of plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and their contemporaries, as well as Spanish picaresque fiction and its English translations, Weissbourd reveals how ideologies of racialized slavery as well as religious difference come to England via Spain, and how both notions of race operate in conjunction to shore up fantasies of Blackness, whiteness, and "pure blood." The enslavement of Black Africans, Weissbourd shows, is inextricable from the staging of race in early modern literature"

Black people in literature. --- English literature --- Race in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Spanish literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- History andcriticism. --- Atlantic slave trade. --- Blackness. --- Early Modern. --- England. --- Iberian slave trade. --- Jews. --- Lope de Vega. --- Mabbe. --- Moorishness. --- Moors. --- Muslim. --- Othello. --- Race. --- Renaissance. --- Rogue. --- Shakespeare. --- Spain. --- Spanish comedia. --- The Spanish Gypsy. --- comparative literature. --- critical race studies. --- drama. --- identity. --- impure blood. --- morisco. --- orientalism. --- passing. --- public theater. --- purity of blood. --- religious difference. --- sixteenth seventeenth century. --- slavery. --- theater. --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Black people in literature --- Race in literature --- Slavery in literature