Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World

Hill, Ruth

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“…Sometimes it's necessary to analyze the narrator's tone and descriptions, together with the Jew's clothes, bearing, and words, and the dialogues and actions of the characters who surround the Jew, in order to perceive the Jew as a Jew; hence, my distinction between implicit and explicit Jewishness. 15 As Hill recognizes, Jewishness has been constituted as a visual and moral-intellectual trope in the modern period. Writers can therefore depict a Jewish typology that is readable as Jewish without resorting to explicit racial reference.…”

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The Discourse of Jewish Difference in J. M. Coetzee's <em>Disgrace</em>

Silverstein¹

2011

Jewish Social Studies

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During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the South African plaasroman or pastoral novel depicted white physical labor in the countryside and elided black labor, which functioned to legitimize Afrikaner ownership of African land. As J. M. Coetzee demonstrates in White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988), commonplace in the plaasroman is the figure of the Jew, who attempts to swindle the farm from its rightful, white owner. Coetzee's novel Disgrace (1999) seeks to destabilize the ideological underpinnings of the pastoral novel by means of inverting its discursive elements. Therefore, in his anti-pastoral novel Disgrace, Coetzee replaces the plaasroman's white male patriarch with that genre's metaphor of otherness, the Jew. The Jew's ambivalent whiteness allows for such a transposition, whereas the protagonist's "Jewish" body results in his weakness and inability to work the land, which subverts the plaasroman's mythic inscription of the countryside as property of the white peasantry.

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The Discourse of Jewish Difference in J. M. Coetzee's <em>Disgrace</em>

Silverstein¹

2011

Jewish Social Studies

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‘The salvational currents of emigration’: Racial theories and social disputes in the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century

Rodao¹

2018

J. Southeast Asian stud.

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This article analyses the changing significance of racial theories in the writings of Spanish emigrants in the late nineteenth century Philippines. Works by Antonio Cañamaque, Pablo Feced (Quioquiap), and Antonio Barrantes show how racialised understandings of colonial society in the Philippines evolved, from an initial dismissal of hybridism and rejection of mestizos to assertions of the innate superiority of the ‘white race’ and advocation of a rigid separation between local communities. These developments are considered in the context of the rising popularity of biological determinism alongside an influx of Spanish emigrants into the Philippines. The Spanish settlers used biological determinism to proclaim their role as the sole purveyors of both ‘progress’ and of a kind of egalitarianism. This article describes these debates and arguments, analyses their inconsistencies, and addresses the Filipino elite's responses to the settlers’ racial theories. These responses are read not simply as part of the development of Filipino nationalism, but as reflective of rivalries within the Spanish colonial community in the Philippines, where the locally born found additional reasons to support anticolonialism.

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Marginados en la poesía burlesca colonial

Cabanillas-Cárdenas¹

2019

RRO

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La poesía satírico burlesca de Juan del Valle y Caviedes (Porcuna, Jaén, 1645-Lima, 1698), fiel a la configuración lírica de finales del siglo XVII, está muy ligada a la plaza pública y a las circunstancias y acontecimientos producidos en ella. Por ello, el presente trabajo analiza en algunos textos de Caviedes la representación poética de los mulatos que habitaron la ciudad de Lima en dicho periodo. Después de revisar las lecturas de Hill (2007) – que estudia estos textos como “poemas de casta” – se presta particular atención a los modos de representación – y valoración – de este grupo de sujetos marginales desde la perspectiva de un contemporáneo.

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Between Black and White: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Caste Poetry in the Spanish New World

Cited by 14 publications

References 13 publications

The Discourse of Jewish Difference in J. M. Coetzee's <em>Disgrace</em>

The Discourse of Jewish Difference in J. M. Coetzee's <em>Disgrace</em>

‘The salvational currents of emigration’: Racial theories and social disputes in the Philippines at the end of the nineteenth century

Marginados en la poesía burlesca colonial

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