“Speaking in Terror: Femininity, Monstrosity and ‘Race’ in Early Modern Culture”
- Autori: Calbi, Maurizio
- Anno di pubblicazione: 2002
- Tipologia: Capitolo o Saggio (Capitolo o saggio)
- OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/328694
Abstract
The chapter examines how the intersecting vectors of gender and race contribute to the configuration of monstrosity in early modern drama and anatomy, and how this construction is simultaneously powerful and haunted by the fear of the 'other'.