Turning Turk - English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean (Hardcover, New)

Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures inthe early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of thatexperience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that theEnglish encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representationsinspired by that encounter, helped to form the emergent identity of an English nation that was eagerly fantasizing about having an empire but was still in the preliminary phase of its colonizing drive. Vitkus' research shows how plays about the multi-cultural Mediterranean participated in this process of identity formation, and how anxieties about religious conversion, foreign trade and miscegenation were crucial factors in the formation of that identity.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	October 2003
Authors:	D Vitkus
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	244
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-29452-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	0-312-29452-2
Barcode:	9780312294526

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