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This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.
Shakespeare / Skin departs from previous studies as it deliberately and often explicitly engages with issues of social and racial justice. Each of the chapters interrogates and centres 'skin' in relation to areas of expertise that include performance studies, aesthetics, animal studies, religious studies, queer theory, Indigenous studies, history, food studies, border studies, postcolonial studies, Black feminism, disease studies and pedagogy. By considering contemporary understandings of skin, this volume examines how the literature of the early modern past creates paths to constructing racial hierarchies.
With contributors from the USA, UK, South Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Australia, chapters are informed by an array of histories, shedding light on how skin was understood in Shakespeare's time and at key moments during the past 400 years in different media and cultures. Chapters include considerations of plays such as Titus Andronicus, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and work by Borderlands Theater, Los Colochos and Satyajit Ray, among many others.
For researchers and instructors, this book will help to shape teaching and inform research through its modelling of antiracist critical practice. Collectively, the chapters in this collection allow us to consider how sustained attention to skin via cross-historical and innovative approaches can reveal to us the various uses of Shakespeare that shed light on the fraught nature of our interrelatedness. They set a path for readers to consider how much skin they have in the game when it comes to challenging structures of racism.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Skin Deep
Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA)
Chapter 1: Möbius Skin: Dermal History in the Early Modern Age
Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Sachini Seneviratne (Postgraduate Institute of English of the Open University of Sri Lanka)
Chapter 2: 'My fleece of woolly hair': Animals and Race in Shakespeare's Plays
Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA and Shakespeare Association of America)
Chapter 3: 'You May Look Pale': Whiteness and Love Melancholia in Love's Labour's Lost
Darryl Chalk (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Chapter 4: Hermione's Wrinkles
Mario DiGangi (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
Chapter 5: Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory: Incidental Shakespeares and Everyday life in the films of Satyajit Ray
Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)
Chapter 6: From Hatred to a Utopia: Making the Invisible Visible on the Skin in Miyagi Satoshi's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Boram Choi (Korea University of Arts)
Chapter 7: Shakespeare and la Herida Abierta: Twin Skin, Colonial Wounds, and the Cicatrix Poetics of Borderlands Theater
Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA)
Chapter 8: The Skin of Our Voices: Mendoza or Shakespeare Retold by Los Colochos
Alfredo Michel Modenessi (National University of Mexico)
Chapter 9: Skin/Pedagogy
Wendy Lennon (Shakespeare Institute, UK)
Chapter 10: Artisans of the Skin: Recipe Studies and Race-Making in Shakespearean Skincrafts
Jennifer Park (University of Glasgow, UK)
Chapter 11: Legible Bodies, Implicated Subjects, and the Call for Justice: Reflections on Titus Andronicus
Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Chapter 12: Caliban's Skin, Racial Hinges, and Anti-Racist Kin
Bernadette Andrea (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Chapter 13: Shakespeare/Skin: Indigenous Theoretical Response
Bethany Hughes, Tara Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Madeline Sayet in Dialogue
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