Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors

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The work Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Race and rhetoric in the Renaissance : barbarian errors

Title remainder

barbarian errors

Statement of responsibility

Ian Smith

Creator

• Smith, Ian, 1957 June 9-

Contributor

• Palgrave Connect (Online service)

Subject

• Blacks in literature
• English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
• Race in literature
• Renaissance -- England
• Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 16th century
• Rhetoric -- England -- History -- 17th century
• Africans in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"During the English Renaissance, the figure of the classical barbarian - identified by ineloquent speech that marked him as a cultural outsider - was recovered for stereotyping Africans. This book advances the idea that language, and not only color and religion, functioned as an important racial code. This study also reveals that way in which England's strategic projection of a "barbarous" language was meant to enhance its own image at the expense of the early modern African. Ian Smith makes use of the sixteenth-century preoccupation with language rehabilitation to tell the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racial scapegoating."--Jacket

Member of

• Early modern cultural studies
• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (Literature Collection)

Cataloging source

NLGGC

Index

index present

LC call number

PR428.R35

LC item number

S65 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography