{"product_id":"speaking-of-the-moor-from-alcazar-to-othello-paperback-softback-9780812221015","title":"Speaking of the Moor; From \"Alcazar\" to \"Othello\" (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812221015","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpeaking of the Moor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom \"Alcazar\" to \"Othello\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmily C. Bartels (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812221015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 December 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Bartels is one of the first, and certainly one of the most influential, literary critics to emphasize the crucial point that before the onset of the Atlantic slave trade, Africa's place in early modern English conceptualizations was open ended. She shows with great clarity that narratives of Africa were diverse and unpredictable.\" (Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) \"Bartels discovers a surprising openness in the treatment of the Moor in early modern England. Her book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the formative history of race and color.\" (Michael Neill, University of Auckland)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title\u003cbr\u003e \"Speak of me as I am,\" Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In \u003ci\u003eThe Battle of Alcazar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLust's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e, the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors.\u003cbr\u003e Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our-and England's-understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In \u003ci\u003eSpeaking of the Moor\u003c\/i\u003e, Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record-Richard Hakluyt's \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Navigations\u003c\/i\u003e, Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's \"blackamoors,\" and John Pory's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe History and Description of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e. Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On Sitting Down to Read Othello Once Again\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 1 Enter Barbary: The Battle of Alcazar and \"the World\"\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 2 Imperialist Beginnings: Hakluyt's Navigations and the Place and Displacement of Africa\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 3 \"Incorporate in Rome\": Titus Andronicus and the Consequence of Conquest\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 4 Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 5 Banishing \"all the Moors\": Lust's Dominion and the Story of Spain\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 6 Cultural Traffic: The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor\u003cbr\u003e Ch. 7 The \"stranger of here and everywhere\": Othello and the Moor of Venice\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A Brave New World\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702467391768,"sku":"9780812221015","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/speaking-of-the-moor-from-alcazar-to-othello-paperback-softback-9780812221015","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}