Loomba theory Othello

"Othello is both a fantasy of interracial love and social tolerance...."

"And a nightmare of racial hatred and male violence."

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"Ideologies, the play tells us"

"only work because they are not entirely external to us."

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"Othello is a victim of racial beliefs..."

"Precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones."

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"Othello yokes together and reshapes..."

"available images of 'blackamoors' and Moors, giving us a black Moor with both a slave past and noble lineage."

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"Venice became an ideal"

"That was evoked by English writers subtly to critique domestic affairs."

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"Venetian civility has been built by letting in"

"the very foreigners who now threaten to undermine it at a different level."

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"If some English writers extolled the virtues of Venice"

"Others found Italy a dangerous model for the English"

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"Ideologies, the play tells us"

"only work because they are not entirely external to us."

"Othello is a victim of racial beliefs..."

"Othello yokes together and reshapes..."

"Venice became an ideal"

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