Miles P Grier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1509775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miles P Grier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miles P |
| FAMILY NAME | Grier |
| SIGNATURE | GRIER M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Rac’d all over their Bodies’
This chapter argues that the English developed an identity as a bookish people in innumerable quotidian acts, including meditations on the tattoo in travel narrative and stage practices of blacking. Travel writers such as William Towerson and Aphra Behn translated the autochthonous tattoos of Africans into figurative clothing, thus sewing a marker of European social status into the skin. This figurative work both robbed Black Africans of authorit…
Communications
Communications Alden T. Vaughan and Miles P. Grier To the Editor: The recent announcement that the 2022 Douglass Adair Memorial Award winner is "Staging the Cherokee Othello: An Imperial Economy of Indian Watching" by Miles P. Grier in the January 2016 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly prompts me to submit a minor correction. Professor Grier wonders if a book that Virginia Mason Vaughan and I coauthored, Shakespeare in America, "doubt[s] th…
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
Staging the Cherokee Othello
In November 1752, a performance of Othello at Williamsburg’s newly refurbished theater served as a diversion from unresolved trade negotiations between Virginia’s lieutenant governor Robert Dinwiddie and Cherokee dignitaries. The Virginia Gazette reported that the empress of the Cherokees interrupted the play because she thought actors engaged in a swordfight truly intended to kill each other. This event has never been considered in light of a sp…
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Staging the Cherokee Othello
In November 1752, a performance of Othello at Williamsburg’s newly refurbished theater served as a diversion from unresolved trade negotiations between Virginia’s lieutenant governor Robert Dinwiddie and Cherokee dignitaries. The Virginia Gazette reported that the empress of the Cherokees interrupted the play because she thought actors engaged in a swordfight truly intended to kill each other. This event has never been considered in light of a sp…
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
Communications
Communications Alden T. Vaughan and Miles P. Grier To the Editor: The recent announcement that the 2022 Douglass Adair Memorial Award winner is "Staging the Cherokee Othello: An Imperial Economy of Indian Watching" by Miles P. Grier in the January 2016 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly prompts me to submit a minor correction. Professor Grier wonders if a book that Virginia Mason Vaughan and I coauthored, Shakespeare in America, "doubt[s] th…
‘Rac’d all over their Bodies’
This chapter argues that the English developed an identity as a bookish people in innumerable quotidian acts, including meditations on the tattoo in travel narrative and stage practices of blacking. Travel writers such as William Towerson and Aphra Behn translated the autochthonous tattoos of Africans into figurative clothing, thus sewing a marker of European social status into the skin. This figurative work both robbed Black Africans of authorit…
History (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cherokee (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work)