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Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in
relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the
vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures
that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these
individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often
violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of
Shakespeare's work that afford us a better understanding of our
ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism is divided into seven short
chapters that cast light on contemporary issues regarding racism in
our day. Some salient topics that these chapters address include
the murder of unarmed Black men and women, the militarization of
the U.S. Mexico border, anti-immigrant laws, exclusionary measures
aimed at Syrian refugees, inequities in healthcare and safety for
women of color, international trends that promote white
nationalism, and the dangers of complicity when it comes to racist
paradigms. By bringing these contemporary issues into conversation
with a wide range of plays that span the many genres in which
Shakespeare wrote throughout his career, these chapters demonstrate
how the widespread racism and discord within our present moment
stands to infuse with urgent meaning Shakespeare's attention to the
(in)humanity of strangers, the ethics of hospitality, the perils of
insularity, abuses of power, and the vulnerability of the political
state and its subjects. The book puts into conversation Shakespeare
with present-day events and cultural products surrounding topics of
race, ethnicity, xenophobia, immigration, asylum, assimilation, and
nationalism as a means of illuminating Shakespeare's cultural and
literary significance in relation to these issues. It should be an
essential read for all students of literary studies and
Shakespeare.
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a
new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin
Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake
of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only
proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in
new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early
modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization,
and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and
post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize
cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience
new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity.
By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters,
and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes
how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an
alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on
salvation and gendered identity formation.
Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of
immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the
one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive
influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to
anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the
other, they shed light on how our current concerns surrounding
immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in
Shakespeare's work and expand the texts in new and relevant
directions for a contemporary audience. The essays consider the
immigrant experience; strangers and strangeness; values of
hospitality in relationship to the foreigner; the idea of a host
society; religious refuge and refugees; legal views of inclusion
and exclusion; structures of xenophobia; and early modern homeland
security. In doing so, this volume offers a variety of perspectives
on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama and how the
influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of
community and identity; and, collection questions what is at stake
in staging the anxieties and opportunities associated with
foreigners. Ultimately, Shakespeare and Immigration offers the
first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and
alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work. By
presenting a compilation of views that address Shakespeare's
attention to the role of the foreigner, the volume constitutes a
timely and relevant addition to studies of race, ethics, and
identity in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in
relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the
vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures
that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these
individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often
violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of
Shakespeare's work that afford us a better understanding of our
ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism.
Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism is divided into seven short
chapters that cast light on contemporary issues regarding racism in
our day. Some salient topics that these chapters address include
the murder of unarmed Black men and women, the militarization of
the U.S. Mexico border, anti-immigrant laws, exclusionary measures
aimed at Syrian refugees, inequities in healthcare and safety for
women of color, international trends that promote white
nationalism, and the dangers of complicity when it comes to racist
paradigms. By bringing these contemporary issues into conversation
with a wide range of plays that span the many genres in which
Shakespeare wrote throughout his career, these chapters demonstrate
how the widespread racism and discord within our present moment
stands to infuse with urgent meaning Shakespeare's attention to the
(in)humanity of strangers, the ethics of hospitality, the perils of
insularity, abuses of power, and the vulnerability of the political
state and its subjects. The book puts into conversation Shakespeare
with present-day events and cultural products surrounding topics of
race, ethnicity, xenophobia, immigration, asylum, assimilation, and
nationalism as a means of illuminating Shakespeare's cultural and
literary significance in relation to these issues. It should be an
essential read for all students of literary studies and
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and Immigration critically examines the vital role of
immigrants and aliens in Shakespeare's drama and culture. On the
one hand, the essays in this collection interrogate how the massive
influx of immigrants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
influenced perceptions of English identity and gave rise to
anxieties about homeland security in early modern England. On the
other, they shed light on how our current concerns surrounding
immigration shape our perception of the role of the alien in
Shakespeare's work and expand the texts in new and relevant
directions for a contemporary audience. The essays consider the
immigrant experience; strangers and strangeness; values of
hospitality in relationship to the foreigner; the idea of a host
society; religious refuge and refugees; legal views of inclusion
and exclusion; structures of xenophobia; and early modern homeland
security. In doing so, this volume offers a variety of perspectives
on the immigrant experience in Shakespearean drama and how the
influential nature of the foreigner affects perceptions of
community and identity; and, collection questions what is at stake
in staging the anxieties and opportunities associated with
foreigners. Ultimately, Shakespeare and Immigration offers the
first sustained study of the significance of the immigrant and
alien experience to our understanding of Shakespeare's work. By
presenting a compilation of views that address Shakespeare's
attention to the role of the foreigner, the volume constitutes a
timely and relevant addition to studies of race, ethics, and
identity in Shakespeare.
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a
new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin
Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake
of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only
proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in
new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early
modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization,
and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and
post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize
cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience
new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity.
By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters,
and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes
how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an
alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on
salvation and gendered identity formation.
Shakespeare / Skin offers a comprehensive array of readings of
'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and
animal, noun and verb. Deliberate in its reimagining of critical
and theoretical categories such as queer theory, animal studies and
indigenous studies, to name a few, Shakespeare / Skin intervenes in
various areas of the field to offer a wide range of methodological
approaches grounded in antiracist practice. Each of the chapters
interrogates and centres 'skin' in relation to a specific area of
expertise: performance studies, eco-criticism, aesthetics, animal
studies, religious studies, queer theory, indigenous studies,
digital humanities, history, food studies, affect theory, border
studies, trans studies, disability studies, Black feminism, disease
studies, or pedagogy and together they offer a panoramic reading of
skin in Shakespeare's work. With contributors from the USA, UK,
South Africa, India, Singapore and Australia, readings are informed
by a wide array of histories and shed light on how skin was
understood in Shakespeare's time and at key moments during the past
400 years in different media and cultures. For researchers and
instructors, Shakespeare / Skin offers an encyclopedic range of
readings that will help to shape teaching and inform research
through its modelling of antiracist critical practice.
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