This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of ‘skin’ in Shakespeare’s works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.Shakespeare / Skin departs from previous studies as it deliberately and often explicitly engages with issues of social and racial justice. Each of the chapters interrogates and centres ‘skin’ in relation to areas of expertise that include performance studies, aesthetics, animal studies, religious studies, queer theory, Indigenous studies, history, food studies, border studies, postcolonial studies, Black feminism, disease studies and pedagogy. By considering contemporary understandings of skin, this volume examines how the literature of the early modern past creates paths to constructing racial hierarchies.With contributors from the USA, UK, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Australia, chapters are informed by an array of histories, shedding light on how skin was understood in Shakespeare’s time and at key moments during the past 400 years in different media and cultures. Chapters include considerations of plays such as Titus Andronicus, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and work by Borderlands Theater, Los Colochos and Satyajit Ray, among many others.For researchers and instructors, this book will help to shape teaching and inform research through its modelling of antiracist critical practice. Collectively, the chapters in this collection allow us to consider how sustained attention to skin via cross-historical and innovative approaches can reveal to us the various uses of Shakespeare that shed light on the fraught nature of our interrelatedness. They set a path for readers to consider how much skin they have in the game when it comes to challenging structures of racism.
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List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Skin DeepRuben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)Chapter 1: Möbius Skin: Dermal History in the Early Modern Age Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Sachini Seneviratne (Postgraduate Institute of English of the Open University of Sri Lanka)Chapter 2: ‘My fleece of woolly hair’: Animals and Race in Shakespeare’s Plays Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA and Shakespeare Association of America)Chapter 3: ‘You May Look Pale’: Whiteness and Love Melancholia in Love’s Labour’s LostDarryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)Chapter 4: Hermione’s Wrinkles Mario DiGangi (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)Chapter 5: Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory: Incidental Shakespeares and Everyday life in the films of Satyajit Ray Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)Chapter 6: From Hatred to a Utopia: Making the Invisible Visible on the Skin in Miyagi Satoshi’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Boram Choi (Korea University of Arts)Chapter 7: Shakespeare and la Herida Abierta: Twin Skin, Colonial Wounds, and the Cicatrix Poetics of Borderlands Theater Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA)Chapter 8: The Skin of Our Voices: Mendoza or Shakespeare Retold by Los Colochos Alfredo Michel Modenessi (National University of Mexico)Chapter 9: Skin/Pedagogy Wendy Lennon (Shakespeare Institute, UK) Chapter 10: Artisans of the Skin: Recipe Studies and Race-Making in Shakespearean Skincrafts Jennifer Park (University of Glasgow, UK)Chapter 11: Legible Bodies, Implicated Subjects, and the Call for Justice: Reflections on Titus AndronicusSandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa)Chapter 12: Caliban’s Skin, Racial Hinges, and Anti-Racist Kin Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)Chapter 13: Shakespeare/Skin: Indigenous Theoretical Response Bethany Hughes, Tara Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Madeline Sayet in DialogueBibliographyIndex
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Offering a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' - a term that embraces the human and animal - in Shakespeare's works, this collection provides a wide range of methodological approaches grounded in antiracist practice.
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Multi-faceted approach to the intersection between Shakespeare and skin which includes an extensive array of different critical readings by international contributors
Published in association with the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London, this series sets the future agenda for Shakespeare research and criticism. Each edited volume examines a Shakespearean intersection that has been chosen to encourage inventive reflections, suggestions for future directions for the field and critical engagements of a broad interdisciplinary nature.
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9781350261600
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2024-08-08
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The Arden Shakespeare
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234 mm
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156 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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352

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Biographical note

Ruben Espinosa is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, USA, and Associate Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is the author of Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021), Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare’s England (2011), and co-editor of Shakespeare and Immigration (2014).