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OverviewAs readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays. Despite this physical absence, however, they still play central symbolic roles in articulating definitions of love, beauty, chastity, femininity, and civic and social standing, invoked as the opposite and foil of women who are “fair”. Beginning from this recognition of black women’s simultaneous physical absence and imaginative presence, this book argues that modern Shakespearean adaptation is a primary means for materializing black women’s often elusive presence in the plays, serving as a vital staging place for historical and political inquiry into racial formation in Shakespeare’s world, and our own. Ranging geographically across North America and the Caribbean, and including film and fiction as well as drama as it discusses remade versions of Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespearean Adaptation, Race, and Memory in the New World will attract scholars of early modern race studies, gender and performance, and women in Renaissance drama. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joyce Green MacDonaldPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.259kg ISBN: 9783030506827ISBN 10: 3030506827 Pages: 179 Publication Date: 25 August 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction: “A cemetery inhabited by highly vocal ghosts”.- 2. Chapter One: Rereading Othello in Gayl Jones’ Mosquito: Claiming Wisdom.- 3. Chapter Two: Remembering Race in Romeo and Juliet and Mississippi Masala: Uncrossed Lovers.- 4. Chapter Three: Bodies, Race, and Performance in Antony and Cleopatra and Derek Walcott’s A Branch of the Blue Nile: Memory’s Signatures.- 5. Chapter Four: Women’s Memories in Othello and Harlem Duet: Echoes of Harlem.- 6. Chapter Five: Re-racing Romance from The Taming of the Shrew to Deliver Us from Eva: ‘The Right Foundation’.- 7. Afterword: Adapting Shakespeare, Forgetting Race in King Charles III: Future History?Reviews“MacDonald … offers up a monograph that aptly demonstrates how adaptations fill in the representational gap of Shakespeare’s missing black women even as she undertakes the same gap-filling work herself by spotlighting the endeavors of creators of color all-too-often overlooked in Shakespearean adaptation studies, as well as in contemporary culture.” (Vanessa I. Corredera, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2022) MacDonald ... offers up a monograph that aptly demonstrates how adaptations fill in the representational gap of Shakespeare's missing black women even as she undertakes the same gap-filling work herself by spotlighting the endeavors of creators of color all-too-often overlooked in Shakespearean adaptation studies, as well as in contemporary culture. (Vanessa I. Corredera, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 16 (2), 2022) Author InformationJoyce Green MacDonald is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA, where she teaches courses on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. She is the author of Women and Race in Early Modern Texts (2002) and has published widely on Renaissance racial formations, Shakespearean adaptation, and performance. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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