Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

By Elysabeth Grace and Patricia Parker

Women, Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415077788
• ISBN13: 9780415077781
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A critical master-piece

This book is an amalgam of cultural studies, Feminism, and Post-colonial theory. Its particular importance lies in its successful inclusion of the issues of "race" and class within the focal issue of gender. The seventeen essays that make up this edition, interrogate the intersection between gender, race, and class in a plethora of influential texts written by both male and female Renaissance writers such as Othello, Urania, The Tragedy of Mariam, to name but few. Indeed, this book is of a great value especially for "interdisciplinary" readings of Renaissance culture.