Race and affect in early modern English literature /

This collection of essays brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions of race in early modern literature.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	LaPerle, Carol Meija, 1972- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tempe, Arizona : ACMRS Press, 2022.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Race in literature. Affect (Psychology) in literature. Sex role in literature. Literature and race. Literature and society > England > History > 16th century. Literature and society > England > History > 17th century. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.

Table of Contents:

Section I. Racial Formations of Affective Communities
Imagining Islamicate Worlds: Race and Affect in the Contact Zone / Ambereen Dadabhoy
Desire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene / Mira Assaf Kafantaris
New World Encounters and the Racial Limits of Friendship in Early Quaker Life Writing / Meghan E. Hall
Early Modern Affect Theory, Racialized Aversion, and the Strange Case of Foetor Judaicus / Drew Daniel
Section II. Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender
Conversion Interrupted: Shame and the Demarcation of Jewish Women's Difference in The Merchant of Venice / Sara Coodin
Navigating a Kiss in the Racialized Geopolitical Landscape of Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West / Kirsten N. Mendoza
Branded with Baseness: Bastardy and Race in King Lear / Mario DiGangi
Section III. Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness
Black Ink, White Feelings: Early Modern Print Technology and Anti-Black Racism / Averyl Dietering
"Away, You Ethiop!": A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Denial of Black Affect
A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations / Matthieu Chapman
Othello's Unfortunate Happiness / Cora Fox
The Racialized Affects of Ill-Will in the Dark Lady Sonnets / Carol Mejia LaPerle.