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OverviewEarly modern scholarship often reads the dramatic representations of the Muslim woman in the light of postcolonial identity politics, which sees an organic relationship between the West’s historical domination of the East and the Western discourse on the East. This book problematizes the above trajectory by arguing that the assumption of a power relation between a dominating West and a subordinate East cannot be sustained within the context of the political and historical realities of early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire remained as a dominant superpower throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was perceived by Protestant England both as a military and religious threat and as a possible ally against Catholic Spain. Reading a series of early modern plays from Marlowe to Beaumont and Fletcher alongside a number of historical sources and documents, this book re-interprets the image of Islamic femininity in the period’s drama to reflect this overturn in the world’s power balances, as well as the intricate dynamics of England’s intensified contact with Islam in the Mediterranean. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Öz ÖktemPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9781793625229ISBN 10: 1793625220 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 29 January 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Re-Orienting Gender and Islamic Alterity in Early Modern English Drama Chapter 2: Erasing the Cultural and Religious Difference: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Greene’s Alphonsus Chapter 3: The Muslim Woman and A Christian Turned Turk: Islamic Apostasy and the Gender Paradigm on the Jacobean Stage Chapter 4: Redeeming the Islamic Eve inside the Ottoman Palace: Massinger’s The Renegado Chapter 5: “Hell’s Perfect Character:” Dark Female Sexuality and the Fear of Ottoman Colonialism in The Knight of Malta Chapter 6: The Island Princess: Colonialism, Religion, (Inter)sexuality and IntertextualityReviewsThis well-historicized literary analysis makes an outstanding pinpointed intervention in the surging scholarly conversation about the workings of racism, coloniality, and gender in early modern English drama's representations of Muslim Others.--Mohja Kahf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Author InformationÖz Öktem is assistant professor in the English Language and Literature Department of Istanbul Aydın University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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