Turning Turk

Zusatztext '[A] revealing exploration of England's early modern relationship with the Ottoman Empire and with Islam as a whole...Vitkus provides essential reading to those with an interest in the meeting of early modern cultures.' - Early Modern Literary Studies Informationen zum Autor DANIEL VITKUS is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. He has published articles on English Renaissance drama and culture, on European representations of Islam, and on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern period. He is also the editor of Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England and Piracy, Slavery and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England. Klappentext Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired 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. Zusammenfassung Turning Turk looks at contact between the English and other cultures in the early modern Mediterranean, and analyzes the representation of that experience on the London stage. Vitkus's book demonstrates that the English encounter with exotic alterity, and the theatrical representations inspired 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Theorizing the Exotic Other The English and the Mediterranean Encountering Islam Machiavellian Merchants Engendering Exchange The Mediterranean and the New World...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: D Vitkus, D. Vitkus, Daniel Vitkus, Daniel J. Vitkus
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.08.2002
• EAN: 9780312294526
• ISBN: 978-0-312-29452-6
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Early Modern Cultural Studies; Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700; Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700; Early Modern Cultural Studies; Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700; Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; B, Literature, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature, general, European Literature, Theater—History, Theatre History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, identity;Renaissance;theatre