Racism, Misogyny, and the Othello Myth: Inter-Racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee

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Author: Celia R. Daileader

ISBN-10: 0521613140

ISBN-13: 9780521613149

Category: American & Canadian Literature

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A discussion of inter-racial sexual relations in Anglo-American literature from the English Renaissance to today.

Introduction: Othellophilia;1. White devils, black lust: inter-racialism in early modern drama; 2. The heathen with the heart of gold: Othellophilia comes to America; 3. Holes at the poles: gothic horror and the racial abject; 4. Sisters in bondage: abolition, amalgamation, and the crisis of female authorship; 5. Handsome devils: romance, rape, racism, and the rhet(t)oric of darkness; 6. Invisible men, unspeakable acts: the spectacle of black male violence in modern American fiction; Conclusion: 'White women are snaky': jungle fever and its discontents.