Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America

by Ayanna Thompson

Book Overview

Notions, constructions, and performances of race continue to define the contemporary American experience, including our conceptions, performances, and employments of Shakespeare. Passing Strange examines the contact zones between American constructions of Shakespeare and American constructions of race by asking: How is Shakespeare's universalism constructed within explicit discussions and debates about racial identity? Of what benefit is the promotion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199987963
• ISBN13: 9780199987962
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"