Description
This collection brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions of race in early modern literature.
Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature puts the fields of critical race studies and affect theory into dialogue. Doing so opens a new set of questions: What are the emotional experiences of racial formation and racist ideologies? How do feelings-through the physical senses, emotional passions, or sexual encounters-come to signify race? What is the affective register of anti-blackness that pervades canonical literature? How can these visceral forms of racism be resisted in discourse and in practice? By investigating how race feels, this book offers new ways of reading and interpreting literary traditions, religious differences, gendered experiences, class hierarchies, sexuality, and social identities. So far scholars have shaped the discussion of race in the early modern period by focusing on topics such as genealogy, language, economics, religion, skin color, and ethnicity. This book, however, offers something new: it considers racializing processes as visceral, affective experiences.
About the Author
Carol Mejia LaPerle is professor and honors advisor for the English department at Wright State University.
Reviews
"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780866986922
Author Carole Mejia Laperle
Format Hardback
Page Count 180
Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Publisher Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 150mm * 21mm
Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature puts the fields of critical race studies and affect theory into dialogue. Doing so opens a new set of questions: What are the emotional experiences of racial formation and racist ideologies? How do feelings-through the physical senses, emotional passions, or sexual encounters-come to signify race? What is the affective register of anti-blackness that pervades canonical literature? How can these visceral forms of racism be resisted in discourse and in practice? By investigating how race feels, this book offers new ways of reading and interpreting literary traditions, religious differences, gendered experiences, class hierarchies, sexuality, and social identities. So far scholars have shaped the discussion of race in the early modern period by focusing on topics such as genealogy, language, economics, religion, skin color, and ethnicity. This book, however, offers something new: it considers racializing processes as visceral, affective experiences.
About the Author
Carol Mejia LaPerle is professor and honors advisor for the English department at Wright State University.
Reviews
"Deftly organized into three major sections (Racial Formations of Affective Communities; Racialized Affects of Sex and Gender; Feelings and Forms of Anti-Blackness), Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature will be of particular value to readers with an interest in literary criticism, race and ethnicity in literature, and the philosophy of race as reflected and influenced by literature and drama. A seminal work of collective scholarship, Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature is highly recommended for personal, professional, and academic library Literary Studies collections." * Midwest Book Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9780866986922
Author Carole Mejia Laperle
Format Hardback
Page Count 180
Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Publisher Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 238mm * 150mm * 21mm
