Racial Apocalypse - The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

Zusatztext " Racial Apocalypse is an original exploration of how concepts of race emerged in early modern Spain and England through the belief that Christ would establish an eternal kingdom. Villagrana illustrates how a form of white supremacy emerges as Spanish and English Christians struggled to understand how indigenous peoples and Black Africans might be incorporated into the kingdom of God. This book will importantly add to our understanding of how religious doctrine informs racial formation and racism." -- Dennis Austin Britton, University of New Hampshire Informationen zum Autor José Juan Villagrana is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University. Klappentext This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. Zusammenfassung This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: "All nations and kindreds" 1 Apocalypse and Racial Assimilation in Spanish Colonial Texts: Motolinía, Mendieta, and Acosta 2 Goths and Magog: Asserting and Disputing Spanish Global Supremacy in Spanish Ethnic Origin Myths and English Black Legend Polemic 3 Making a Prophet: Greville, Sidney, Drake, and the Cultivation of English Colonial Supremacy Coda: The Legacy of Apocalyptic Racism

Product details

• Authors: Jose Juan Villagrana, José Juan Villagrana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367774578
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77457-8
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800