Writing Race Across the Atlantic World: Medieval to Modern

Bys: Beidler, Phillip and Taylor, Gary

Book Overview

This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period, as well as between 'history' and 'literature'. Individual essays address the ways in which categories of 'race' - black brown, red and white, African American and Afro-Caribbean,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295960
• ISBN13: 9780312295967
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"