Beyond The Tempest: Language, Legitimacy, and La Frontera

Espinosa, Ruben

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“…The situation is not dissimilar for scholars of color who bring their work on Shakespeare and race into the classroom. I hope, nevertheless, to continue to answer the call to engage students in conversations about Shakespeare and race issued by Ruben Espinosa, Ambereen Dadabhoy, David Sterling Brown, and others in recent essays on Shakespeare, antiracist pedagogy, and diversity in the classroom (Brown, 2016; Dadabhoy, 2020; Espinosa, 2017).…”

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Cultivating expertise: Glossing Shakespeare and race

Akhimie

2021

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Tracing connections between research methodologies and classroom practices in the study of Shakespeare and race, this essay argues for the importance of offering students’ opportunities to build and demonstrate expertise. The essay discusses the use of a glossary exercise in classes on race and early modern literature, and the learning objectives for such courses. Finally, the essay offers a critique of such courses as commonly structured and suggestions for new directions in teaching race in literature from this period.

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Cultivating expertise: Glossing Shakespeare and race

Akhimie

2021

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“…Desmet (2008) has also noted that students will often research and imitate what is already on YouTube before creating their own versions. For analysis of a poignant student video about Macbeth and cartel violence in the Borderlands, see Espinosa (2017, pp. 55–56).…”

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Seeing Shakespeare: Narco narratives and neocolonial appropriations of Macbeth in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Santos

2022

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This essay examines the racializing logics and consequences of drawing analogies between the works of William Shakespeare and the devastatingly violent realities of the drug trade in the Americas. The particular prominence of Macbeth in the wide range of Shakespearean invocations and appropriations in contemporary US narratives about narcotrafficking cannot be attributed simply to the fact that it is a tale of bloody ambition. Rather, the repeated mapping of a play that comes to its conclusion with an English military invasion of its “barbarous” Scottish neighbors onto the US–Mexico Borderlands speaks to much deeper histories of colonial conquest and to neocolonial interventionist policies and actions of the present. The essay concludes by turning to two recent instances in which theater artists have translated and significantly revised Macbeth in order to reframe dominant narratives about narcotrafficking, racial supremacy, and the border. These productions demonstrate the disruptive and transformative potential of Shakespearean appropriations that resist neocolonial power structures and ideologies.

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Introduction: Experiencing Digital Shakespeares in the Global South

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2022

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Beyond The Tempest: Language, Legitimacy, and La Frontera

Cited by 4 publications

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Cultivating expertise: Glossing Shakespeare and race

Cultivating expertise: Glossing Shakespeare and race

Seeing Shakespeare: Narco narratives and neocolonial appropriations of Macbeth in the US–Mexico Borderlands

Introduction: Experiencing Digital Shakespeares in the Global South

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