The Racialized Affects of Ill-Will in the Dark Lady Sonnets

LaPerle, Carol Mejia

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“…Both subfields have the potential to promote activist scholarship, what Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa‐Rey define as “the production of knowledge and pedagogical practices through active engagements with, and in the service of, progressive social movements” (2009, p.3), scholarship that centers often silenced voices, radically challenges the status quo, and calls for ethics and equity in spaces where people have long ignored imbalances of power. In advocating for anti‐racist scholarship and pedagogy, Carol Mejia‐LaPerle provocatively asks, “As we commit to anti‐racist efforts in our research and teaching, what materials, archives, histories, and experiences can be put beside each other” (Mejia‐LaPerle, 2019)? One answer is adaptation/appropriation studies and PCRS.…”

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When the master’s tools fail: Racial euphemism in Shakespeare appropriation, or, the activist value of Premodern Critical Race Studies

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2022

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As premodern studies continues to develop tools for anti‐racist scholarship and pedagogy, this essay establishes the stakes of adaptation/appropriation studies especially committing to these efforts. Turning to the novel The Serpent of Venice, I demonstrate how appropriations that engage with race too often employ what I frame as racial euphemism: palliative engagements with race that sidestep questions of power and inequity. This is especially true for those attempting to maintain distance between Shakespeare and questions of race, and especially racism, often under the guise of historical accuracy. This racially euphemistic approach, therefore, disseminates to especially wide audiences white supremacist approaches to race. Premodern Critical Race Studies provides a vital activist framework, and with it, important conceptual and methodological tools, that help adaptation/appropriation scholars identify racial euphemism in premodern retellings, while at the same time offering appropriators scholarship that can help them craft anti‐racist appropriations that resist the idea of a race‐neutral past.

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Section: Conclusion: the Activist Value Of Pcrs And Appropriation Stu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

When the master’s tools fail: Racial euphemism in Shakespeare appropriation, or, the activist value of Premodern Critical Race Studies

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The Racialized Affects of Ill-Will in the Dark Lady Sonnets

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