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Agents Without Empire
Mobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France
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Artikel-Nr:
9781531506674
Veröffentl:
2024
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.03.2024
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Antónia Szabari
Gewicht:
458 g
Format:
229x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Antónia Szabari is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. Her interests include early modern literature and political culture, interspecies ethics, plant ontology, and speculative fiction, both old and new. She is the author of Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 2009) and co-author, with Natania Meeker, of Radical Botany: Plants and Speculaive Fiction (Fordham University Press, 2019), winner of the 2019 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies book prize.
"An admirable work of scholarship. Agents without Empire offers a multidimensional account of the construction of race in early modern France by addressing how French authors navigate the boundaries of the human."--Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University
Preface | ixIntroduction: French Agents in the Ottoman Empire | 11 Big Appetite and Rabelais's Multiracial Empires | 292 Bird-Man 2, Female Androgyne, and Other Speculative Transformations | 603 Snake Women of the East: Staging Freedom and Invisible Unfreedoms | 894 Nicolas de Nicolay's Empire of Ink | 1215 Distancology and Universalizing French Masculinity | 160Coda: Race and Self-Discovery | 189Acknowledgments | 197Notes | 199Works Cited | 249Index | 269