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Citing Shakespeare : the reinterpretation of race in contemporary literature and art

Title
Citing Shakespeare : the reinterpretation of race in contemporary literature and art / Peter Erickson.
Author
Erickson, Peter
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Description
x, 214 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Influence
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello
  • Race in literature
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
'Not Shakespeare': acts of quotation in Nadine Gordimer's My son's story -- Rita Dove's Shakespeares -- Neither Prospero nor Caliban: Derek Walcott's revaluations of Shakesperean fluency -- 'Yet you can quote Shakespeare, at the drop of a pin': Shakespearean riffs in Leon Forrest's Divine days -- Paul Robeson's Othello and the question of multicultural Shakespeare -- Contextualizing Othello: Ishmael Reed, Caryl Phillips, and Djanet Sears -- Respeaking Othello in Fred Wilson's Speak of me as I am -- 'It sounds like a quotation': J.M. Coetzee and the power of Shakespearean allusion.
ISBN
  • 1403970548 (alk. paper)
  • 9781403970541 (alk. paper)
  • 1403970556 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781403970558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006049263
OCLC
YBP 2006049263
Author
Erickson, Peter.
Title
Citing Shakespeare : the reinterpretation of race in contemporary literature and art / Peter Erickson.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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