| Title: | Understanding race in early modern England: Shakespeare’s dramas |
| Author: | Liliana Tronea-Ghidel |
| Publication: | The Proceedings of the International Conference Literature, Discourse and Multicultural Dialogue. Section: Language and Discourse, 1, p. 527-533 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-93590-3-7 |
| Editors: | Iulian Boldea |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | This paper’s main focus is on those factors that were at play during the Renaissance in England and which determined the emergence of race as – according to GayatriSpivak – a necessary strategy to protect and defend its national reputation at the expense of African ‘barbarians.’ Several assumptions of the term ‘race’ are considered: relations of kinship, individual worth or behaviour, status of birth, religious confession, geographical residence, and skin colour. Mention is being made to AniaLoomba’s three streams of ideas that inform the concept or race in early modern Europe. On the other hand, race is a dream act where significant imagined social relations assume a reality status in the world so that fantasy effects social transformation. According to StathisGourgouris, “one ‘becomes’ a national subject insofar as one believes oneself to be a witness to this mysterious process or ritual called ‘national community,’ insofar as one participates in (imagines, constructs, dreams) the fantasy of belonging to a national community”. I have also considered critical approaches of other critics and analysts of the Renaissance, such as Kim Hall, Stephen Orgel, Yumna Siddiqi and Martin Butler, who have written about race and race relations in Early Modern Britain. |
| Key words: | Renaissance, race, race relations, national community |
| Language: | English |
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