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Vanessa I. Corredera - Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America

Av Vanessa I. Corredera

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Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello's anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story's potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello's history of contemporary reanimations, Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello's story, turning to the play as re-crafted in a time and place imagined as having overcome racial injustice: post-racial America (2008 2016). This book analyses representations of Othello across genres and media including podcasts, television, film, graphic novels and performance, and argues that these representational choices of Othellos perpetuate varying racial frameworks that advance antiblack or antiracist versions of the play. By elucidating the presence and function of these competing frameworks, it illuminates and explains how to wrestle with the intersections between Shakespeare, Othello and the American racial imaginary in appropriations, scholarship, the classroom and beyond.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-08-15
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 508 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 360
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474487306
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Vanessa I. Corredera is Associate Professor in and Chair of the Department of English at Andrews University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between Shakespeare, race and representation in contemporary popular culture, adaptations/appropriations and performance. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and collections, including Literature Compass, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Along with L. Monique Pittman and Geoffrey Way, she is co-editing the forthcoming collection Rethinking Shakespeare and Appropriation for the Twenty-First Century.

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Brilliant, stunning and illuminating, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America provides vital interventions in Shakespeare studies and adaptation studies. Corredera’s argumentation and prose are clear, compelling and very convincing. You will never read or see Othello in the same way again. A must read for all scholars and students of Shakespeare!

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