Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America

by: Vanessa I Corredera (Author)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 360 pages

ISBN-10: 1474487300

ISBN-13: 9781474487306

Book Description

Othello famously supplicates, ‘Speak of me as I am’, pleading for the Venetians to ‘nothing extenuate’, leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello’s anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story’s potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello’s history of contemporary reanimations, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello’s story, tuing to the play as re-crafted in a time and place imagined as having overcome racial injustice:post-racial America (2008-2016). This book analyses representations of Othello across genres and media including podcasts, television, film, graphic novels and performance, and argues that these representational choices of Othellos perpetuate varying racial frameworks that advance antiblack or antiracist versions of the play. By elucidating the presence and function of these competing frameworks, it illuminates and explains how to wrestle with the intersections between Shakespeare, Othello and the American racial imaginaryin appropriations, scholarship, the classroom and beyond.
From the Back Cover Traces the history of Othello’s contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres Othello famously supplicates, ‘Speak of me as I am’, pleading for the Venetians to ‘nothing extenuate’, leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello’s anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story’s potential misrepresentation. As the first monograph to examine Othello’s history of contemporary reanimation, Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America takes up this question of retelling Othello’s story, tuing to the play as re-crafted in a time and place imagined as having overcome racial injustice:post-racial America (2008-2016). This book analyses representations of Othello across genres and media, including a podcast, television, film, a comic series and performances, and argues that these representational choices perpetuate varying racial frameworks that advance antiblack or antiracist versions of the play. By elucidating the presence and function of these competing frameworks, it illuminates how to wrestle with the intersections between Shakespeare, Othello and the American racial imaginary in appropriations, scholarship, the classroom and beyond. Vanessa I. Corredera is Associate Professor in and Chair of the Department of English at Andrews University.
About the Author
Vanessa I. Corredera is Associate Professor in and Chair of the Department of English at Andrews University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections between Shakespeare, race and representation in contemporary popular culture, adaptations/appropriations and performance. Her work has appeared in numerous jouals and collections, including Literature Compass, Borrowers and Lenders:The Joual of Shakespeare and Appropriation, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Along with L. Monique Pittman and Geoffrey Way, she is co-editing the forthcoming collection Rethinking Shakespeare and Appropriation for the Twenty-First Century.

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