{"product_id":"global-shakespeare-and-social-injustice-9781350335097","title":"Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Editors' Introduction  1. Global Shakespeare and its Confrontation with Social Justice,  \u003ci\u003eChris Thurman (Wits University, South Africa) and Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, south Africa)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection One: Scholarship and Social Justice: Questions for the Field\u003c\/b\u003e  2. Re-thinking 'Global Shakespeare' for Social Justice, \u003ci\u003eSusan Bennett (University of Calgary, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Caliban in an Era of Mass Migration, \u003ci\u003eLinda Gregerson (University of Michigan, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. What Makes Global Shakespeares an Exercise in Ethics? \u003ci\u003eAlexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Two: Resisting Racial Logics\u003c\/b\u003e  5. Making Whiteness out of 'Nothing': The Recurring Comedic Torture of (Pregnant) Black Women from Medieval to Modern, \u003ci\u003eDyese Elliott-Newton (UCLA, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Feeling in Justice: Racecraft and \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDerrick Higginbotham (University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Marking Muslims: The Prince of Morocco and the Racialization of Islam in \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHassana Moosa (Kings College, London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Three: Imagining Freedom with Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e  8. Signing for Justice: Politicized Reading and Performative Writing in the Robben Island Shakespeare,  \u003ci\u003eKai Wiegandt (Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. 'Men at some times are masters of their fates': The Gallowfield Players perform \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRowan Mackenzie (independent scholar, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eSection Four: Placing Sex and Gender under Scrutiny\u003c\/b\u003e  10. The 'sign and semblance of her honour': Petrarchan Slander and Gender-based Violence in Three Shakespearean Plays,\u003ci\u003e Kirsten Dey (University of Pretoria, South Africa)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Open-gendered Casting in Shakespeare Performance, \u003ci\u003eAbraham Stoll (University of San Diego, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Teaching \u003ci\u003eTitus Andronicus \u003c\/i\u003eand Ovidian Myth when Sexual Violence is on the Public Stage,\u003ci\u003e Wendy Beth Hyman (Oberlin College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  Notes Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019651907927,"sku":"9781350335097","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350335097.jpg?v=1750780916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-shakespeare-and-social-injustice-9781350335097","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}