Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677

Imprints of the Invisible
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-64991-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 652 g

Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people-whether from Africa, India or America-in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habib, Imtiaz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Missing (Black) Subject

1 Early Tudor Black Records The Mixed Beginnings of a Black Population

2 Elizabethan London Black RecordsThe Writing of Absence

3 Black Records of Seventeenth-Century LondonABenign Neglect and the Legislation of Enslavement

4 Black People outside London, 1558–1677The Provincial Backdrop

5 Indians and OthersThe Protocolonial Dream

Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Imtiaz Habib is an Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, USA. His previous books include Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period (2000), and Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism (1993).