Weyward Macbeth 2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-10216-3_1
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“…I follow the lead of Ruben Espinosa in this endeavor by “employ[ing] a cross‐historical approach that engages contemporary understandings of ethnic, racial, and cultural politics” while being attuned to the ways in which ideas about the premodern past have shaped or stifled those understandings (Espinosa, 2016, p. 61). As the contributors to Ayanna Thompson and Scott L. Newstok's 2010 collection Weyward Macbeth have amply demonstrated, “ Macbeth may not fit neatly into the category of a ‘race’ play,” but “like a specter is it nevertheless haunted by, and haunts, the rhetoric and performances of race” (Thompson, 2010b, p. 5). Examining a wide range of twenty‐first century “narco” Macbeth s through multitemporal and multimedia perspectives reveals both a pattern and a recursive loop wherein “the Scottish play” is repeatedly used to reactivate the wounds of colonial conquest, to perpetuate ideologies about racial, ethnic, and cultural supremacy, and to justify further inequality and imperial intervention.…”
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“…I follow the lead of Ruben Espinosa in this endeavor by “employ[ing] a cross‐historical approach that engages contemporary understandings of ethnic, racial, and cultural politics” while being attuned to the ways in which ideas about the premodern past have shaped or stifled those understandings (Espinosa, 2016, p. 61). As the contributors to Ayanna Thompson and Scott L. Newstok's 2010 collection Weyward Macbeth have amply demonstrated, “ Macbeth may not fit neatly into the category of a ‘race’ play,” but “like a specter is it nevertheless haunted by, and haunts, the rhetoric and performances of race” (Thompson, 2010b, p. 5). Examining a wide range of twenty‐first century “narco” Macbeth s through multitemporal and multimedia perspectives reveals both a pattern and a recursive loop wherein “the Scottish play” is repeatedly used to reactivate the wounds of colonial conquest, to perpetuate ideologies about racial, ethnic, and cultural supremacy, and to justify further inequality and imperial intervention.…”
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confidence: 99%