Citing Shakespeare

The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art

Authors: Erikson, P.

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Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our vision of America.

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PETER ERICKSON is an independent scholar.

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'Erickson's Citing Shakespeare examines the complex, sometimes ambivalent and even combustive relationship between artists of the African Diaspora and Shakespeare's language, texts and image. From Rita Dove's poetry to Ishmael Reed's novels to the visual art of Fred Wilson, we see that Shakespearean citation is one of several techniques used by these virtuosos to defamiliarize, defy reader expectation, create culture, reverse the flows of power, and just plain play. Erickson's expanded framework for citation allows for the multiple languages that these artists use to 'speak' to Shakespeare, including word, character, history, bodies, and the light, shadow, gloss and heft of the visual image. Citing Shakespeare is a blueprint for a more expansive and inclusive Shakespeare Studies, one which shows serious political and scholarly commitment to interrogations of race, gender and nationhood, which engages learnedly the insights of multiple disciplines and traditions, and which asks difficult questions about Shakespeare's continuing function as a site of cultural power.' - Francesca Royster, Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University


Table of contents (10 chapters)

Table of contents (10 chapters)
  • Introduction: Allusion as Revision

    Pages 1-10

    Erickson, Peter

  • “Not Shakespeare”: Acts of Quotation in Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story

    Pages 11-19

    Erickson, Peter

  • Rita Dove’s Shakespeares

    Pages 21-39

    Erickson, Peter

  • Neither Prospero nor Caliban: Derek Walcott’s Revaluations of Shakespearean Fluency

    Pages 41-60

    Erickson, Peter

  • “Yet you can quote Shakespeare, at the Drop of a Pin”: Shakespearean Riffs in Leon Forrest’s Divine Days

    Pages 61-75

    Erickson, Peter

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Bibliographic Information

Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Citing Shakespeare
Book Subtitle
The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art
Authors
Copyright
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright Holder
Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
eBook ISBN
978-1-137-06009-9
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-06009-9
Hardcover ISBN
978-1-4039-7054-1
Softcover ISBN
978-1-4039-7055-8
Edition Number
1
Number of Pages
X, 214
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