Shakespeare and Antiblack World-Making

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-92095-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Reproducing Shakespeare

This book is about Shakespeare’s role in sustaining the antiblack paradigm of modernity. This work re-reads both Shakespearean texts and performances from the 16th century to the present to argue that American and English societies have deployed Shakespeare for four hundred years as a mechanism to construct and reinforce paradigmatic antiblackness. Framed within the author’s experiences as a Black scholar, actor, and director of Shakespeare and using both contemporary Critical Race Theory (CRT), as well as Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies (PCRS), this book uses civil society’s engagement with and performance of Shakespeare in various times and places to reveal the continuum of antiblackness that predates chattel slavery in America and contributes to antiblack world-making across oceans and centuries.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chapman, Matthieu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Shakespeare and the “Human”: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Shakespeare and Time: An Introduction.- Chapter 3: Shakespeare and Violence: An Introduction.- Chapter 4: Interlude: The Epiphenomenal Monograph.- Chapter 5: The First Time: Whitewashing White Permanence: The (Dis)/(re)Membering of White Corporeality in Early Modern England.- Chapter 6: The Second Time: “What a piece of worke is a man!”: Biocentrism, Gender, and Experimenting with The (un)Birth of Blackness in Shakespeare’s Plays.-  Chapter 7: The Third Time: Red, White, and Black: Shakespeare’s and the Structuring of Racial Antagonisms in Early Modern England and the New World.- Chapter 8: Time Warp: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Othello is a Black Man.- Chapter 9: The Fourth Time: The Affect of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Black Lives: A Song to Underscore the Burning of Police Stations.- Chapter 10: The Fifth Time: Rewriting Shakespeare Through Performance: The Meta-Aporia of Black Flesh and White Bloodlust.

Über Autor(innen)

Matthieu Chapman is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the Literary Director of NY Classical Theatre, USA. His memoir, is available from WVU Press (2023). His first monograph, was published in2017.  He is the co-editor along with Anna Wainwright of (2023). Matthieu has also published articles in and othersHis creative writing and essays have been featured in  and the