Black Shakespeare - Reading and Misreading Race

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List of contents

Introduction. Toward racial literacy; 1. The racialized reader; 2. Racial blind spots: Misreading bodies, misreading texts; 3. Antonio's 'Fair Flesh' and the property of whiteness; 4. Hamlet: Playing in the dark; 5. We are Othello; Epilogue. Forms of whiteness.

About the author

Ian Smith is the Richard H., Jr. '60 and Joan K. Sell Professor in the Humanities at Lafayette College. He is the author of Race and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Barbarian Errors (2009) and collaborator on Othello Re-imagined in Sepia (2012). He has held several fellowships including the Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellowship in the History and Culture of the Americas. He is currently the vice president of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Summary

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Unmissable reading for students and scholars of drama, cultural and early modern studies.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Smith, Ian (Lafayette College Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2022
• EAN: 9781009224086
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922408-6
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean