Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England

Abstract

Connected Histories in the Early Modern WorldConnected Histories in the Early Modern World contributes to our growing understanding of the connectedness of the world during a period in history when an unprecedented number of people-Africans, Asians, Americans, and Europeans-made transoceanic or other long distance journeys. Inspired by Sanjay Subrahmanyam's innovative approach to early modern historical scholarship, it explores topics that highlight the cultural impact of the movement of people, animals, and objects at a global scale. The series editors welcome proposals for monographs and collections of essays in English from literary critics, art historians, and cultural historians that address the changes and cross-fertilizations of cultural practices of specific societies. General topics may concern, among other possibilities: cultural confluences, objects in motion, appropriations of material cultures, cross-cultural exoticization, transcultural identities, religious practices, translations and mistranslations, cultural impacts of trade, discourses of dislocation, globalism in literary/visual arts, and cultural histories of lesser studied regions (such as the Philippines, Macau, African societies).

Portraits of Women in Exile and Colonization in the Novel De Liefde

“…The need for people in exile to be with a community that fits their background and identity can help them to remember why they left and lived in exile. In line with Das et al (2021), leaving the homeland does not always mean separation or total severance. Outcasts can develop complex relationships to continue to maintain their identity.…”

“…Therefore, the experience of language and society cannot untwist. The presence of community among exiles in exile can maintain close interpersonal relationships or a comprehensive network of friends (Das et al, 2021). The closeness built between exiles can heal the gloomy feelings of being away from one's homeland and loved ones.…”

“…Not seldom the exile punishment received by women is related to myths. Isolation creates physical distance from the homeland (Das et al, 2021) means it also creates separation from relatives and familiar places (Said, 2014). Therefore, being in exile is an ironic situation, because it can assemble physical and psychological instability (Group, 2021).…”