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100	1		_aAkhimie, Patricia, _eauthor. _936415
245	1	0	_aShakespeare and the cultivation of difference : _brace and conduct in the early modern world / _cPatricia Akhimie.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, _c2018.
300			_axii, 219 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
490	1		_aRoutledge studies in Shakespeare ; _v29
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Othello, blackness, and the process of marking -- 2. "Bruised with adversity": race and the slave/servant body in The comedy of errors -- 3. "Hard-handed men": manual labor and imaginative capacity in A midsummer night's dream -- 4. "Fill our skins with pinches": cultivating Calibans in The tempest -- 5. Coda: pedestrian check.
520			_aShakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread belief that certain markers (including but not limited to "blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly, laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful reading of Shakespeare's plays reveals a recurring critique of the conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened, and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern world.-- _cFrom publisher's description.
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xCriticism and interpretation. _936416
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xCharacters _xBlacks. _936417
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xCharacters _xSlaves. _936418
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xPolitical and social views. _936419
650		0	_aRacism in literature. _917145
650		0	_aSelf-culture in literature. _936420
650		0	_aSocial mobility in literature. _936421
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