001492750 000__ 04658nmm\\2200685Ma\4500 001492750 001__ 1492750 001492750 003__ OCoLC 001492750 005__ 20240619003307.0 001492750 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001492750 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001492750 008__ 240328t20242024nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001492750 020__ $$a9781531506698 001492750 020__ $$a1531506690 001492750 0247_ $$a10.1515/9781531506698$$2doi 001492750 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1428235329 001492750 040__ $$aDEGRU$$beng$$erda$$cDEGRU$$dOCLCO 001492750 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001492750 049__ $$aISEA 001492750 050_4 $$aHT1507$$b.S93 2024 001492750 072_7 $$aLIT004150$$2bisacsh 001492750 08204 $$a305.8009$$223/eng/20240126 001492750 1001_ $$aSzabari, Antónia,$$eauthor. 001492750 24510 $$aAgents without Empire :$$bMobility and Race-Making in Sixteenth-Century France /$$cAntónia Szabari. 001492750 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bFordham University Press,$$c[2024] 001492750 264_4 $$c©2024 001492750 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) :$$b23 b/w illustrations 001492750 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001492750 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001492750 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001492750 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001492750 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tPreface --$$tIntroduction: French Agents in the Ottoman Empire --$$t1 Big Appetite and Rabelais's Multiracial Empires --$$t2 Bird-Man 2, Female Androgyne, and Other Speculative Transformations --$$t3 Snake Women of the East: Staging Freedom and Invisible Unfreedoms --$$t4 Nicolas de Nicolay's Empire of Ink --$$t5 Distancology and Universalizing French Masculinity --$$tCoda: Race and Self-Discovery --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tNotes --$$tWorks Cited --$$tIndex 001492750 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001492750 520__ $$aIt is well known that Renaissance culture gave an empowering role to the individual and thereby to agency. But how does race factor into this culture of empowerment? Canonical French authors like Rabelais and Montaigne have been celebrated for their flexible worldviews and interest in the difference of non-French cultures both inside and outside of Europe. As a result, this period in French cultural history has come to be valued as an exceptional era of cultural opening toward others. Agents without Empire shows that such a celebration is, at the very least, problematic. Szabari argues that before the rise of the French colonial empire, medieval categories of race based on the redemption story were recast through accounts of the Ottoman Empire that were made accessible, in a sudden and unprecedented manner, to agents of the French crown. Spying performed by Frenchmen in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century permeated French culture in large part because those who spied also worked as knowledge producers, propagandists, and artists. The practice changed what it meant to be cultured and elite by creating new avenues of race- and gender-specific consumption for French and European men that affected all areas of sophisticated culture including literature, politics, prints, dressing, personal hygiene, and leisure.Agents without Empire explores race making in this period of European history in the context of diplomatic reposts, travel accounts, natural history, propaganda, religious literature, poetry, theater, fiction, and cheap print. It intervenes in conversations in whiteness studies, race theory, theories of agency and matter, and the history of diplomacy and spying to offer a new account of race making in early modern Europe. 001492750 546__ $$aIn English. 001492750 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024). 001492750 650_4 $$aLiterary Studies. 001492750 650_4 $$aRace & Ethnic Studies. 001492750 650_4 $$aRenaissance Studies. 001492750 650_6 $$aRace$$xHistoire. 001492750 650_7 $$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.$$2bisacsh 001492750 650_0 $$aAgent (Philosophy) 001492750 650_0 $$aRace$$xHistory.$$xRace identity$$0(DLC)sh 85001973 001492750 653__ $$aCritical Race Studies. 001492750 653__ $$aEast-West Relations. 001492750 653__ $$aHistory of Diplomacy. 001492750 653__ $$aHistory of Spying. 001492750 653__ $$aMatter and Agency in the early modern world. 001492750 653__ $$aRace and Gender in Early Modern Material Culture. 001492750 653__ $$aRace in Renaissance France. 001492750 653__ $$aSixteenth Century French Literature. 001492750 653__ $$aWhiteness Studies. 001492750 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001492750 852__ $$bebk 001492750 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9781531506698$$zOnline Access$$91476733.1 001492750 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1492750$$pGLOBAL_SET 001492750 980__ $$aEBOOK 001492750 980__ $$aBIB 001492750 982__ $$aEbook 001492750 983__ $$aOnline 001492750 994__ $$a92$$bISE