Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. The chapters in this book analyze apocalypse and racialization from several discursive and geopolitical spaces to shed light on the ubiquity and diversity of apocalyptic racial thought and its centrality to advancing political power objectives across linguistic and national borders in the early modern period.

By approaching race through apocalyptic discourse, this volume not only exposes connections between the pursuit of political power and apocalyptic thought, but also contributes to defining race across multiple areas of research in the early modern period, including colonialism, English and Hispanist studies, and religious studies.

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Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. The chapters in this book analyze apocalypse and racialization from several discursive and geopolitical spaces to shed light on the ubiquity and diversity of apocalyptic racial thought and its centrality to advancing political power objectives across linguistic and national borders in the early modern period.

By approaching race through apocalyptic discourse, this volume not only exposes connections between the pursuit of political power and apocalyptic thought, but also contributes to defining race across multiple areas of research in the early modern period, including colonialism, English and Hispanist studies, and religious studies.

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Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

by José Juan Villagrana
Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World

by José Juan Villagrana

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This book reveals the relationship between apocalyptic thought, political supremacy, and racialization in the early modern world. The chapters in this book analyze apocalypse and racialization from several discursive and geopolitical spaces to shed light on the ubiquity and diversity of apocalyptic racial thought and its centrality to advancing political power objectives across linguistic and national borders in the early modern period.

By approaching race through apocalyptic discourse, this volume not only exposes connections between the pursuit of political power and apocalyptic thought, but also contributes to defining race across multiple areas of research in the early modern period, including colonialism, English and Hispanist studies, and religious studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000587876
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/15/2022
Series: Routledge Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 188
File size: 831 KB

About the Author

José Juan Villagrana is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San José State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "All nations and kindreds"

1 Apocalypse and Racial Assimilation in Spanish Colonial Texts: Motolinía, Mendieta, and Acosta

2 Goths and Magog: Asserting and Disputing Spanish Global Supremacy in Spanish Ethnic Origin Myths and English Black Legend Polemic

3 Making a Prophet: Greville, Sidney, Drake, and the Cultivation of English Colonial Supremacy

Coda: The Legacy of Apocalyptic Racism

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