Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike LeeCambridge University Press, 25 серп. 2005 р. - 256 стор. "Through readings of texts spanning four centuries, and bridging the Atlantic - from genres as diverse as English Renaissance drama, abolitionist literature, gothic horror and contemporary romance - Daileader questions why Anglo-American culture's most widely-read and canonical narratives of inter-racial sex feature a black male and a white female and not a black female and a white male. This study considers the cultural obsession with stories patterned on Shakespeare's Othello alongside the more historically pertinent, if troubling, question of white male sexual predation upon black females. Daileader terms this phenomenon 'Othellophilia' - the fixation on Shakespeare's tragedy of inter-racial marriage to the exclusion of other definitions and more optimistic visions of inter-racial tension. This original study argues that masculinist racist hegemony used myths about black male sexual rapacity and the danger of racial 'pollution' in order to police white female sexuality and exorcise collective guilt over the sexual slavery of women of color." --book cover. |
Зміст
White devils black lust interracialism in early modern drama | 14 |
The Heathen with the Heart of Gold Othellophilia comes to America | 50 |
Holes at the poles Gothic horror and the racial abject | 75 |
Sisters in bondage abolition amalgamation and the crisis of female authorship | 111 |
Handsome devils romance rape racism and the Rhettoric of darkness | 143 |
Invisible men unspeakable acts the spectacle of black male violence in modern American fiction | 170 |
Jungle Fever and its discontents | 208 |
Notes | 223 |
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Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from ... Celia R. Daileader Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2005 |
Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-racial Couples from ... Celia R. Daileader Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2005 |
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