Urvashi Chakravarty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Urvashi Chakravarty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Urvashi |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravarty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVARTY U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2690-7287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory
This chapter begins by tracing some of the key arguments and developments in critical race theory, with a particular focus on its provenance in legal studies, its systemic analysis of the operations of race and race-making, its interventions into an understanding of whiteness as property, its theory of interest convergence, and its emphasis on intersectionality. The chapter then turns to the critical directions in Shakespeare studies which have o…
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage
Slavery and White Womanhood in Early Modern England
This article argues that early modern literary and visual texts from Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors” to Spenser's “Faerie Queene” repeatedly represent and render womanhood as a specifically and singularly white construction; in so doing, they establish the co-constitution of gender and race and their conscription by the contingencies of class. As this formation of white womanhood is in turn mobilized to underwrite the operations of violence and …
Spirited away: Race, slavery and childhood in early modern England
This essay explores the insidious but persistent desire to affix whiteness to modes of bondage and to argue for an original ‘white slavery’ located in early modern forms of traffic, indenture and forced transport. This essay aims to recover the genealogy of this belief, beginning with one of its conceptual origins: the practice of ‘spiriting’ in the seventeenth century. Reading accounts of ‘spiriting’, I firstly trace the narrative genealogies of…
Race and Periodization: Introduction
Race and Periodization:Introduction Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson This special issue of New Literary History on "Race and Periodization" explores the ways early critical race studies allows us to reimagine the boundaries, borders, and possibilities of historical and disciplinary periodization.1 Medievalists and early modernists have, of course, long grappled with the meaning and use of their own historical period designations as well as…
The Renaissance of Race and the Future of Early Modern Race Studies
Race, labour, and the future of the past: King Lear’s ‘true blank’
Race, Natality, and the Biopolitics of Early Modern Political Theology
This essay explores the nexus of race and natality in three of Shakespeare's plays: Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello. Depicted as a form of both corporeal and spiritual (re- )birth, natality also engages the vexed problem and possibility of redemption, which is frequently enacted and problematized in the plays discussed in this essay through the vector of circumcision. If natality registers as both generation and death, and c…
Race and Periodization: Introduction
Race and Periodization:Introduction Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson This special issue of New Literary History on "Race and Periodization" explores the ways early critical race studies allows us to reimagine the boundaries, borders, and possibilities of historical and disciplinary periodization.1 Medievalists and early modernists have, of course, long grappled with the meaning and use of their own historical period designations as well as…
Slavery and White Womanhood in Early Modern England
This article argues that early modern literary and visual texts from Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors” to Spenser's “Faerie Queene” repeatedly represent and render womanhood as a specifically and singularly white construction; in so doing, they establish the co-constitution of gender and race and their conscription by the contingencies of class. As this formation of white womanhood is in turn mobilized to underwrite the operations of violence and …
Race, labour, and the future of the past: King Lear’s ‘true blank’
Race, Natality, and the Biopolitics of Early Modern Political Theology
This essay explores the nexus of race and natality in three of Shakespeare's plays: Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello. Depicted as a form of both corporeal and spiritual (re- )birth, natality also engages the vexed problem and possibility of redemption, which is frequently enacted and problematized in the plays discussed in this essay through the vector of circumcision. If natality registers as both generation and death, and c…
Race, Natality, and the Biopolitics of Early Modern Political Theology
This essay explores the nexus of race and natality in three of Shakespeare's plays: Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello. Depicted as a form of both corporeal and spiritual (re- )birth, natality also engages the vexed problem and possibility of redemption, which is frequently enacted and problematized in the plays discussed in this essay through the vector of circumcision. If natality registers as both generation and death, and c…
The Renaissance of Race and the Future of Early Modern Race Studies
Race, labour, and the future of the past: King Lear’s ‘true blank’
Spirited away: Race, slavery and childhood in early modern England
This essay explores the insidious but persistent desire to affix whiteness to modes of bondage and to argue for an original ‘white slavery’ located in early modern forms of traffic, indenture and forced transport. This essay aims to recover the genealogy of this belief, beginning with one of its conceptual origins: the practice of ‘spiriting’ in the seventeenth century. Reading accounts of ‘spiriting’, I firstly trace the narrative genealogies of…
Race and Periodization: Introduction
Race and Periodization:Introduction Urvashi Chakravarty and Ayanna Thompson This special issue of New Literary History on "Race and Periodization" explores the ways early critical race studies allows us to reimagine the boundaries, borders, and possibilities of historical and disciplinary periodization.1 Medievalists and early modernists have, of course, long grappled with the meaning and use of their own historical period designations as well as…
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Although early modern England claimed to have "too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in," slavery was a quintessentially English phenomenon, writes Urvashi Chakravarty. She argues that England laid the conceptual groundwork for racialized slavery as it interrogated the classical inheritances and contemporary contexts for bondage
Slavery and White Womanhood in Early Modern England
This article argues that early modern literary and visual texts from Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors” to Spenser's “Faerie Queene” repeatedly represent and render womanhood as a specifically and singularly white construction; in so doing, they establish the co-constitution of gender and race and their conscription by the contingencies of class. As this formation of white womanhood is in turn mobilized to underwrite the operations of violence and …
Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory
This chapter begins by tracing some of the key arguments and developments in critical race theory, with a particular focus on its provenance in legal studies, its systemic analysis of the operations of race and race-making, its interventions into an understanding of whiteness as property, its theory of interest convergence, and its emphasis on intersectionality. The chapter then turns to the critical directions in Shakespeare studies which have o…
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