Shakespeare and Critical Race Theory

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ID23600660
AuthorsUrvashi Chakravarty (0000-0003-2690-7287, University of Toronto, corresponding author)
Year2024
Pages11-29
Publication date2024-01-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192843050.013.4
OpenAlexW4391275713
ISBN9780192843050
LanguageEN
References cited16

This chapter begins by tracing some of the key arguments and developments in critical race theory, with a particular focus on its provenance in legal studies, its systemic analysis of the operations of race and race-making, its interventions into an understanding of whiteness as property, its theory of interest convergence, and its emphasis on intersectionality. The chapter then turns to the critical directions in Shakespeare studies which have originated in and have been influenced by critical race theory. The third and final part of this chapter suggests that thinking with critical race theory as a methodology unfolds new ways of understanding the operations of systemic racial inequity in The Merchant of Venice, in particular its fiction of equal protection and its framework of interest convergence, and the chapter ends with a brief reading of the operations of whiteness in Measure for Measure.

Critical race theory · Race (biology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · South Asian Cinema and Culture

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