Moving from the recent debates in women's and Gender studies and shakespearean criticism, the essay examines the “anxiety” surrounding “the permeability of race” which is depicted in the play. The essay focuses on the role of the female body and in particular on the savage female body of Tamora as a complex site of debatable questions. It becomes the place where Shakespeare literally locates the encounter between different races and where the Elizabethans project their anxieties, tabu and contradictions.
Floating Borders: (Dis)- locating Otherness in the Female Body, and the Question of Miscegenation in Titus Andronicus.
GOLINELLI, GILBERTA
2016
Abstract
Moving from the recent debates in women's and Gender studies and shakespearean criticism, the essay examines the “anxiety” surrounding “the permeability of race” which is depicted in the play. The essay focuses on the role of the female body and in particular on the savage female body of Tamora as a complex site of debatable questions. It becomes the place where Shakespeare literally locates the encounter between different races and where the Elizabethans project their anxieties, tabu and contradictions.File in questo prodotto:
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