|
|
Article: "Hottentot": The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet.
- Article from:
- Shakespeare Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Associated University Presses. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Throughout the eighteenth century, calling a fellow Briton a "Hottentot" was understood to be an insult, and writing satirical or straightforwardly serious warnings that the press, the government, or believers in a certain political or religious persuasion threatened to turn the nation into a land of Hottentots was also a commonplace way to express one's worry that British society was degenerating.(1) How did the race constructed by Europeans as the Hottentot race come to be appropriated for such unique domestic application in eighteenth-century Britain? Examining English representations of the people of the Cape of Good Hope written between 1591 and 1630 shows us how the ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Queer/Early/Modern.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;
December 22, 2006 ;
700+ words
...Carla Freccero. Queer/Early/Modern. Durham: Duke University Press ... scholars working on gender in early modern texts, this book is both a useful ... complex, and flexible readings of early modern texts. A significant portion ...
|
|