Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in post-racial America / Vanessa Corredera.
| Author/creator | Corredera, Vanessa I. author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | De Gruyter |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction -- 1. Images of Objectification: Othello as Prop in Kill Shakespeare -- 2. Colorblindness on the Post-Racial Stage: Hip Hop, Comedy, and Cultural Appropriation in Othello: The Remix -- 3. Othello, Race, and Serial: The Ethics of a Shakespearean Cameo -- 4. "No tools with which to hear": Adaptive Re-Vision, Audience Education, and American Moor -- 5. At the Intersection of Gender, Race, and White Privilege: A Case of Three Desdemona Plays -- 6. Resisting Lobotomized Shakespeare: Whiteness and Universality in Key & Peele and Get Out |
| Contents | Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| General note | Introduction; Reanimating Othello in Post-racial America Post-racial and Colourblind The Post-racial and the Colourblind in Cultural Works Shakespeare and America's Racecraft Chapter Overviews Conclusion: Shakespeare, Race, and Habitus Chapter 1. Images of Objectification: Othello as Prop in Kill Shakespeare; Depicting Othello: Visual and Ideological Distortions Controlling Images and the Stereotyping of Black Men Representing Blackness in Comic Book History Kill Shakespeare's Othello and the Complexities of the Black Superhero Othello: The White Protagonists' Foil On the Story's Margins: Othello's Narrative Limitations Othello as Prop Conclusion: Audience, Othello, and the Limits of Re-presentation Chapter 2. Colourblindness on the Post-racial Stage: Hip Hop, Comedy, and Cultural Appropriation in Othello the Remix 'I know what you're thinkin'" Hip Hop, Shakespeare, and Audience Expectations Reconsidering Colourblind Shakespeare Cultural Appropriation, Colourblindness, and Hip-Hop History Racial Erasure: Othello: The Remix and the Flattening of Racial Identity Comedy and Colourblindness 'But there's comedy in it': Comedy as Racial Balm Racial Stereotypes and their Aftereffects Colourblindness and Cultural Appropriation Revisited Othello: The Remix, a Post-Racial Product Chapter 3. Othello, Race, and Serial: The Ethics of a Shakespearean Cameo The White Racial Frame Othello Makes a Cameo Devaluing the Racial Other: Koenig and the White Racial Frame Narrative Authority and the Centering of Whiteness: Koenig as Serial's Iago The Stranger from 'over there': Constructions of Race in Serial Shakespearean Implications: Reconsidering Premodern Critical Race Studies Chapter 4. 'no tools with which to hear': Adaptive Re-vision, Audience Education, and American Moor Whiteness and the American Theatre American Moor and Racism Across (Crumpled) Time Black Masculinity and Misrepresentation American Moor and Education Theater and Adaptive Re-vision The Hope of Audience Education Conclusion: The Time for Theatre's Reckoning Chapter 5. At the Intersection of gender, Race, and White Privilege: A Case of Three Desdemona Plays Desdemona Plays and Feminism Intersectionality and Feminist Racial Erasure Desdemona's Imperfection: Confronting Class and White Privilege Desdemona and Othello: Competing Forms of Oppression Epilogue: The Accessibility Problem Chapter 6. Resisting Lobotomized Shakespeare: Whiteness and Universality in Key & Peele and Get Out The Allure of Universal Shakespeare Whiteness, Narratives, and the Universal 'We' 'How dey goin to kill Othello?!': Questioning Shakespearean Universality 'I told you not to go in...':Horror and the Framing of Blackness in Get Out and Othello Get Out and the Necropolitics of White Supremacy A New Perspective: Reconsidering Othello via Get Out Microagressions and Black Paranoia Conclusion: Othello and the Sunken Place Epilogue Bibliography. |
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