Speaking of the Moor : From "Alcazar" to "Othello"

more insidiously, changes the measure and meaning of race, turning Spanish identity and lineage into negotiable terms, their val ...

only to secure his rise but also to determine Philip’s fall. Almost the moment the rumor of Philip’s bastardy hits the Castilian ...

poised on the precarious edge of accusation in a way—like Portia’s now fa- mous question, “Which is the merchant here? and which ...

whom he plans to win for himself. If his actions are seeded with lust, they are also seeded with power.^23 In advancing Isabella ...

Fernando ( 5. 6. 3774 – 75 ). But while the Spaniard now separates blood from blood, ordering his men to remove the Moor’s body ...

meability and malleability of Spain. Whether or not Lust’s Dominionends in comedy, the “Spanish Moor’s tragedy” is essentially S ...

chapter six Cultural Traffic The History and Description of Africa and the Unmooring of the Moor At the endof the sixteenth cent ...

appeared in an unprecedented number of languages and editions across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and influ ...

Pory apologizes for John Leo’s Muslim past and assures English readers that, al- though the author is “by birth a More, and by r ...

ster” invested in Africa and Islam and “the unity of Africa through Islam,” “painful[ly]” though productively “unmoor[ed]” in It ...

take seriously Oumelbanine Zhiri’s worry about our scholarly dependence on its authority.^16 To look at the English Historyis no ...

could be “of here and everywhere” (Oth. 1. 1. 135 – 36 ). For within this newly circulated depiction of Africa, Moors, Jews, Neg ...

(Africanus, 400 ), and the material and ideological imprint of these “forren” influences appears across the text. Africanus asse ...

backward, from the residue of conquest. “It is likely that a people vanquished shoulde follow the customes and letters also of t ...

While conquest thus defines Africa’s past, traffic defines its present, com- plicating “African” identity to a similar, if not e ...

territories to its more remote southwestern coasts, the Africa of The History takes definition from ongoing cross-cultural comme ...

Barbary, but of all Africa,” it may be in accordance with Islamic law that the “Queene is alwaies of a white skin,” perhaps orig ...

he postulates that “the coniunction betweene the men of Europe and the Negro women” has “bred a generation of browne or tawnie p ...

this latter group not only the “white or tawnie Moores” whom Africanus associates with Barbary but also the “Negros or blacke Mo ...

province of Duccala, one town (Bulahuan) is known for its “famous hospitall,” “wherein all strangers trauailing that way, were s ...