All of these discourses are filtered through Shakespeare’s Othello which constructs a form of black masculinity for the consumption of the white gaze and which must always be addressed. However, the novel is about more than Othello. It challenges Shakespeare’s construction 2/
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And demands a recuperative space for black, Arab, and Sudanese identity free from the violence of colonial discourse and of the nativist discourse that emerges in the wake of post colonialism. It is beautiful and devastating.
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I’m also sharing from Omkara one of the best adaptations of Othello that I’ve seen. It harnesses the racial difference that animates Shakespeare and transforms it into a discourse on caste, changes the critique of militarism to one of extrajudicial and judicial 4/
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Violence. Othello’s isolation in Cyprus is challenged by his isolation within his very own home. It’s an incisive intervention into the play that also manages to work in the genre of a masala film. https://youtu.be/FDHke6gJWEg 5/
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What we celebrate about Shakespeare with
#ShareYourShakespeare is the beauty of his work but let’s also remember that he’s global because of the violence upon which empire feeds and in which his work is complicit.#ShakeRace 6/Näytä tämä ketju -
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Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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This is one of my all-time favorites
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It’s such a beautiful novel.
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I wrote on this! My first published. Article
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