Ian Smith

Black Shakespeare

Reading and Misreading Race

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009224093
• ISBN-10: 1009224093
• Artikelnr.: 72542514

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.