Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in post-racial America / Vanessa I. Corredera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corredera, Vanessa I., author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in literature.

English drama (Tragedy)--17th century--Adaptations--History and criticism.

English drama (Tragedy).

Literature--Adaptations.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello--Adaptations--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Othello (Shakespeare, William).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 350 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Traces the history of Othello's contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres.

Contents:

Images of objectification : Othello as prop in Kill Shakespeare

Colorblindness on the post-racial stage : hip hop, comedy, and cultural appropriation in Othello: the remix

Othello, race, and serial : the ethics of a Shakespearean cameo

"No tools with which to hear" : adaptive re-vision, audience education, and American moor

At the intersection of gender, race, and white privilege : a case of three Desdemona plays

Resisting lobotomized Shakespeare : whiteness and universality in Key & Peele and Get out.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-343) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Corredera, Vanessa I. Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in post-racial America.

ISBN:

9781474487290

1474487297

OCLC:

1316697226

Publisher Number:

99996783061