The Theater of Race and Its Supporting Actors: A Tale of Two Islands

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2021.0020

H. Momma

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay uses the "Race and Periodization" conference of 2019 as a point of departure to consider the role played by different types of words that contributed to the construction of racial thinking over the centuries. The words to be examined in the main sections include race and one of its synonyms (kin), a proper name (Aryan), and adjectives denoting colors (black and white in Old English). The concluding section circles back the word Anglo-Saxon to compare the trajectory of the semantic development of this word with those of race and Aryan in order to foreground some of the resemblances among these three. In order to place its investigation of race and other English words in a larger, global perspective, this essay begins each section with brief accounts of events that took place in two very different parts of the world: namely, England and Japan. While it is more common to consider the question of race in relation to the Western hemisphere, this essay encourages us to look in the other direction to recognize the global impact of racial thinking.

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种族剧场及其配角:两个岛的故事

摘要:本文以2019年的“种族与时期化”会议为出发点，思考几个世纪以来不同类型的词汇在种族思维建构中所扮演的角色。在主要章节中要检查的单词包括race及其同义词(kin)，专有名称(Aryan)和表示颜色的形容词(古英语中的black和white)。结语部分将盎格鲁-撒克逊这个词的语义学发展轨迹与种族和雅利安的语义学发展轨迹进行比较，以突出这三者之间的一些相似之处。为了将对种族和其他英语词汇的调查置于一个更大的、全球的视角中，这篇文章在每一部分的开头都简要介绍了发生在世界上两个截然不同的地方的事件:即英国和日本。虽然考虑与西半球有关的种族问题更为常见，但本文鼓励我们从另一个方向去认识种族思想的全球影响。

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New Literary History LITERATURE-

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1.50

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.