Shakespeare and antiblack world-making / Matthieu Chapman.

Author/creator Chapman, Matthieu author.
Format Book
PublicationCham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2025]
Descriptionxxii, 186 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesReproducing Shakespeare, 2730-9304
Reproducing Shakespeare, 2730-9304 ^A1041297
Abstract "This book is about Shakespeare's role in sustaining the anti-Black 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 anti-Blackness. 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 anti-Blackness that predates chattel slavery in America and contributes to anti-Black world-making across oceans and centuries." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form9783031920967 e-book version
ISBN9783031920950
ISBN3031920953 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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