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Buying Whiteness (TP Edition Cancelled, See TC 1-4039-6071-2)

Gary Taylor

出版	Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
主題	Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN	14039607209781403960726
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=40ZrkQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

When and why did "white people" start calling themselves "white?" When and why did "white slavery" become a paradox? To answer such questions, Taylor begins with the auction of a "white" slave in the first African-American novel, William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), and contrasts Brown's basic assumptions about race, slavery, and sexuality with treatment of those issues in scenes of slave marketing in English Renaissance drama. From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English theatre, fiction, and journalism three centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men, which transformed seventeenth-century art, law, science, and philosophy. Moving between the English Renaissance and the "American Renaissance" of the 1850s, this original and provocative book recovers the lost interracial history of the birth of whiteness.