Citing Shakespeare
The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art
Authors: Erikson, P.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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PETER ERICKSON is an independent scholar.
- Reviews
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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)
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Introduction: Allusion as Revision
Pages 1-10
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“Not Shakespeare”: Acts of Quotation in Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story
Pages 11-19
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Rita Dove’s Shakespeares
Pages 21-39
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Neither Prospero nor Caliban: Derek Walcott’s Revaluations of Shakespearean Fluency
Pages 41-60
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“Yet you can quote Shakespeare, at the Drop of a Pin”: Shakespearean Riffs in Leon Forrest’s Divine Days
Pages 61-75
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Citing Shakespeare
- Book Subtitle
- The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art
- Authors
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- P. Erikson
- 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
- Topics