Shakespeare's White Others

ISBN-13: 9781009384162 / Angielski

David Sterling Brown

Opis

Gives readers a sharp new critical understanding of how racial whiteness in Shakespeare begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy.

Recenzje

'Maintaining that tensions between white characters are themselves racial conflicts, this paradigm-changing book establishes that all of Shakespeare's plays are about race. Rather than understand early modern race in binary terms, Shakespeare's White Others attends to the intraracial color line to reveal that whiteness is not an inalienable property, but rather an unstable commodity that is policed and confiscated through the deployment of anti-Black racism and white supremacy.' Melissa E. Sanchez, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

Spis treści

Introduction: Negotiating whiteness; 1. Somatic similarity; 2. Engendering the fall of white masculinity in Hamlet; 3. On the other hand; 4. 'Hear me, see me'; Conclusion: Artifactually.