Select annotated bibliography entry
Iyengar, Sujata. “Race and Skin Color in Early Modern Women’s Writing.” In The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, Volume 2, edited by Caroline Bicks and Jennifer Summit, 277-95. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
This chapter discusses early modern conceptions of race and skin color in women’s writing. The chapter argues that race can be read as divine in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Psalms, cosm(et)ic catastrophe in Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam, and contaminatio in Aemilia Lanyer. This text explores topics of class, theories of racialization, and gender.
