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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Imtiaz H Habib |
ISBN: | 0761815457 9780761815457 0761815465 9780761815464 |
OCLC Number: | 59440364 |
Description: | [1 volume] |
Contents: | chapter 1 Introduction chapter 2 Shakespeare and the Black Woman: Colonialism's Homosocial Eugenics and Black Desire chapter 3 Aaron and the Lost Blacks of Andronician Rome: Metropolitan Construction and the Writing of the Minority in Early Shakespeare chapter 4 'Speak of me as I am': T.S. Eliot, Othello's Subaltern Voice and the Politics of Ethnic Mimesis chapter 5 Cleopatra and the Sexualization of Race chapter 6 Caliban and Racial Education chapter 7 Afterword chapter 8 Plates chapter 9 Works Cited chapter 10 Index |
Responsibility: | Imtiaz Habib. |
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Thanks to some sustained thinking along several lines, Habib has arrived at solid and illuminating readings of the Shakespearean texts. -- Rachana Sachdev * Shakespeare and Race * The study of race, ethnicity, and identity in the early modern period is one of the most exciting areas of scholarship in the field today. Habib's volume engages meaningfully in this debate while simultaneously providing interested scholars with a welcome survey of previous work. * Sixteenth Century Journal * The study of race, ethnicity, and identity in the early modern period is one of the most exciting areas of scholarship in the field today. Habib's volume engages meaningfully in this debate while simultaneously providing interested scholars with a welcome survey of previous work. * Sixteenth Century Journal * Thanks to some sustained thinking along several lines, Habib has arrived at solid and illuminating readings of the Shakespearean texts. -- Rachana Sachdev * Shakespeare and Race * Read more...


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