Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
PMLA
Angaben zur Quelle:
113,1 (1998) 52-63
Schlagwort(e):
Shakespeare, William,
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Christian converts from Judaism
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Jews History 1500-1800
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Christian converts from Judaism
Kurzfassung:
States that the representations of Jessica in Shakespeare's play, unlike those of the other characters (whose identity is clearcut), turn on alternating characterizations of her as a latent Christian and as a racialized and thus unintegrable Jew. Jessica did not bear the mark of Judaism on her body as did her father (e.g. circumcision). That she converted was illustrative of the English way of thinking in Shakespeare's time, which held that females can cross religious boundaries more easily than males who are more firmly embedded in categories of race and religion. Notions of religious and racial conformity may have contributed to the emerging concepts of the English subject and of its requisite other, the alien. The connection between Blacks and Jews as alien others helped construct the racialized notion of Englishness.
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