Shakespeare's White Others

Shakespeare's White Others
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781009384131
ISBN-13 : 1009384139
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's White Others by : David Sterling Brown

Download or read book Shakespeare's White Others written by David Sterling Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite 'white enough' – this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare's plays, arguing that the 'white other' was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan era – and also one to which Shakespeare was himself a crucial contributor. In exploring Shakespeare's determinative role and strategic investment in identity politics (while drawing powerfully on his own life experiences, including adolescence), the author argues that even as Shakespearean theatrical texts functioned as engines of white identity formation, they expose the illusion of white racial solidarity. This essential contribution to Shakespeare studies, critical whiteness studies and critical race studies is an authoritative, urgent dismantling of dramatized racial profiling.


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