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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice. It requires a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life. This volume helps us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like. The contributors both invoke and invert the paradigm of Global Shakespeare, building on the vital contributions of this scholarly field over the past few decades but also suggesting ways in which it cannot quite accommodate the various global Shakespeares' presented in these pages. A focus on social justice, and on the many forms of social injustice that demand our attention, leads to a consideration of the North/South constructions that have tended to shape Global Shakespeare conc
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Editors' Introduction 1. Global Shakespeare and its Confrontation with Social Justice,
Chris Thurman (Wits University, South Africa) and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, south Africa) Section One: Scholarship and Social Justice: Questions for the Field 2. Re-thinking 'Global Shakespeare' for Social Justice,
Susan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada) 3. Caliban in an Era of Mass Migration,
Linda Gregerson (University of Michigan, USA) 4. What Makes Global Shakespeares an Exercise in Ethics?
Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA) Section Two: Resisting Racial Logics 5. Making Whiteness out of 'Nothing': The Recurring Comedic Torture of (Pregnant) Black Women from Medieval to Modern,
Dyese Elliott-Newton (UCLA, USA) 6. Feeling in Justice: Racecraft and
The Merchant of Venice,
Derrick Higginbotham (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA) 7. Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the Racialization of Islam in
The Merchant of Venice, Hassana Moosa (Kings College, London, UK) Section Three: Imagining Freedom with Shakespeare 8. Signing for Justice: Politicized Reading and Performative Writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare,
Kai Wiegandt (Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin) 9. 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield Players perform
Julius Caesar,
Rowan Mackenzie (independent scholar, UK) Section Four: Placing Sex and Gender under Scrutiny 10. The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan Slander and Gender-based Violence in Three Shakespearean Plays,
Kirsten Dey (University of Pretoria, South Africa) 11. Open-gendered Casting in Shakespeare Performance,
Abraham Stoll (University of San Diego, USA) 12. Teaching
Titus Andronicus and Ovidian Myth when Sexual Violence is on the Public Stage,
Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College, USA) Notes Index
