Abstract:This essay mines the interstices between queer theory and early modern race studies to argue that current critical conversations in the field of queer studies around homohistory and homonationalism illuminate paradoxical shifts in the meanings of the early modern English family and Renaissance iterations of race. Drawing on the tension between sameness and alterity generated by discourses around the prefix “homo,” I examine the household’s “alien bodies” and their imbrication in blood-based ideas of race and family to ask how sameness can make us more attentive to the (so-called) “strange.” Kinship, I contend—as the proximate, the familial, and the lineal—situates the unkind, the unlike, and the alien at its very center. Looking at several key moments in Othello and Hamlet alongside Marlowe’s Edward II and Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, this essay argues that discourses of kinship and kindness register emergent racial formations rooted in the paradoxes of the familiar and the familial, the servant and the stranger, proximate alienation and racialized approximations.

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More Than Kin, Less Than Kind：相似性、奇异性和早期现代英语的同质化

摘要：本文挖掘酷儿理论与早期现代种族研究之间的空隙，以论证当前酷儿研究领域围绕同源历史和同源民族主义的批判性对话阐明了早期现代英国家庭和文艺复兴时期种族迭代的意义的矛盾转变。利用围绕前缀“homo”的话语所产生的相同性和不同性之间的张力，我检查了家庭的“异形身体”及其在种族和家庭的血统观念中的覆盖，以了解相同性如何使我们更加关注（所谓）“奇怪”。我认为，亲属关系——作为近亲、家族和直系——将不友善、异类和异类置于其中心。看看《奥赛罗》和《哈姆雷特》中的几个关键时刻，以及马洛的爱德华二世和福特的《可惜她是妓女》，