This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.
This collection theorizes the intersections between race, Shakespearean adaptation and pop culture. Chapters take a range of investigative approaches, some centring Shakespeare and others using Shakespeare to theorize pop culture, but all focusing on the ethical implications of the triangulation between Shakespeare, pop culture and race.
Chapters explore the tensions between the 'low', racialized status of a pop culture form and Shakespeare's 'high' status; the ways race informs a specific Shakespearean reference (in film, television, music, Young Adult literature and self-help manuals, among other forms); and the influence loop between Shakespeare and the systemic racism of creative industries, such as Hollywood and book publishing.
As the analysis of race expands within Shakespeare studies, so too, this collection argues, should the archives for analyzing Shakespeare and race grow. While it is now more common to consider race and embodiment in both early modern and contemporary Shakespearean performance and adaptation, pop culture remains underexplored and undertheorized. As this collection demonstrates, rigorous theoretical and methodological approaches can illuminate how pop culture uses Shakespeare to uphold, contest and shape existing racial imaginaries for broad audiences.
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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Shakespeare, Race and the Power of the Popular
Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews
University, USA)
1. The King I Know He Is: Black Masculinity in the
Intertextual Network of Shakespeares Hamlet, Disneys The Lion King and
Beyoncés Black is King
Claire Dawkins (Stanford University Online High
School, USA)
2. Adapting Whiteness: Race and the Politics of
Shakespeare for Young Readers
Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama, USA)
3. Calling all the Tiger Mom wannabes!: Parenting with
and without Shakespeare across Racial Lines
Jeanette Nguyen Tran (Drake University, USA)
4. The future in the instant: Whiteness, Temporality
and Frances McDormands Coen Brothers Archive in Joel Coens Postmenopausal
Macbeth
Jennie M. Votava (Allegheny College, USA)
5. Pop Remix: Shakespeare and White Womanhood in The
Mexican-American Novel
Daniel G. Lauby (University of Maine Farmington and
Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, USA)
6. Emily Dickinson Casts Othello: Shakespeare and White
Allyship in AppleTV+s Dickinson
Marianne Montgomery (Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East
Carolina University, USA) and Vanessa L. Rapatz (Ball State University, USA)
7. Alpha, Beta, Cuck: King Lear, Succession and the
Rescripting of White Masculinity
Maya Mathur (University of Mary Washington, USA)
8. Shakespeare and Race in Two Pop Culture Versions of
Station Eleven
Michael D. Friedman (University of Scranton, USA)
9. Shakespeare and Bridgerton: The Myths of Race and
Gender in Regency Romance
Taarini Mookherjee (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Epilogue: Moonflower Murders and the Racial Evasions of Pop
Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) and L. Monique Pittman (Andrews
University, USA)
Bibliography
Index
Vanessa I. Corredera is Professor of English at Baylor University, USA.
L. Monique Pittman is Professor of English and Director of the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University, USA.
