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Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of âœthe language of Shakespeareâ with English by examining the role Shakespeareâs works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that continue to shape the linguistic cultures of the United States.

Opening up urgent and overdue conversations about linguistic oppression, racism, and resistance within the settler-colonial nation state, Kathryn Vomero Santos draws our attention to artists, activists, and educators who have conjured, embraced, remade, and rejected Shakespeare in service of multilingual counternarratives that push back against dominant perspectives, refuse assimilation, and strive for more polyglot and polyvocal futures. As they shine a bright light on the legacies of the federal Indian boarding school system, Indigenous language revitalization efforts, the militarization of the U.S.âMexico border, and battles over ethnic studies in classrooms, these critical and c

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 6/30/2025
      ISBN-13 9781032274492
      978-1032274492
      ISBN-10 1032274492
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of âœthe language of Shakespeareâ with English by examining the role Shakespeareâs works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that continue to shape the linguistic cultures of the United States.

      Opening up urgent and overdue conversations about linguistic oppression, racism, and resistance within the settler-colonial nation state, Kathryn Vomero Santos draws our attention to artists, activists, and educators who have conjured, embraced, remade, and rejected Shakespeare in service of multilingual counternarratives that push back against dominant perspectives, refuse assimilation, and strive for more polyglot and polyvocal futures. As they shine a bright light on the legacies of the federal Indian boarding school system, Indigenous language revitalization efforts, the militarization of the U.S.âMexico border, and battles over ethnic studies in classrooms, these critical and c

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