Renaissance Borderlands: Geographies of Race in Early Modern Drama
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu15345233448209882021-08-03T07:08:18Z Renaissance Borderlands: Geographies of Race in Early Modern Drama Meza, Carmen M., Meza Literature My research seeks to enrich sixteenth and seventeenth century literature by drawing on insights from Chicana feminist theory and literature. Scholars in early modern race studies have drawn attention to the influence of black feminist theories, but notions of U.S. Southwest borderlands and Chicanas are often underdeveloped. Inspired by Gloria’s Anzaldua’s groundbreaking feminist memoir Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Renaissance Borderlands argues that constructions of race and conversion vary by location in early modern plays. Anzaldua’s work emphasizes how living in-between the United States and Mexico produces a sense of non-belonging for Chicanas along the Southwest border. In my case studies, religion functions in a similar way, as characters try to integrate themselves into a place that is not their homeland through conversion but continue to bear markers of their outsider status. For them, conversion is not just religious but also geographical and racial. In early modern plays, religion and ethnicity conflate in ways that Anzaldua’s texts helps to further illuminate. By examining who characters are in relation to where they are, my research highlights the intersectional relationship between geography and identity politics, and ultimately shows how dramas produced by Philip Massinger, Robert Daborne, John Fletcher, Aphra Behn, William Shakespeare and others helped shape location specific conceptions of race on the early modern stage. 2018 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534523344820988 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534523344820988 restricted--full text unavailable until 2023-12-17 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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