On the Margins: Race, Gender, and Empire

This book focuses on the role which ?minority? writers adopt, particularly in English. It examines how the minority, at times, the invisible, presence is related, classified and designated within majority culture. It illustrates how the majority onlooker intended to view and perceive the ?other,? as early as the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Monstrous races, gruesome objects and marvelous occurrences were all located outside the sphere of the majority culture.