In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's
Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera
in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage
Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary
types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white
male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban
theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black
skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a
fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic
category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert
authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state,
the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s
reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded
attempted to counteract it.
General
Imprint: |
University of Virginia Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Writing the Early Americas |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Miles P. Grier
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
328 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8139-5036-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8139-5036-8 |
Barcode: |
9780813950365 |
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