Histrom reader: "But Margo, it’s a romance, it’s fiction, and there is “fictional license.” Even your example of Shakespeare proves that such license is acceptable in literature." Me: True, but what about the "historical"? Othello isn't based on "history." 8/
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A story, pt 3. 2019: Netflix/Shonda Rhimes announce the adaptation of the the Bridgerton Series. Cheers rise from several corners of Romancelandia, amid a few raised eyebrows about SR's choice. (Me: hello, have you read Sarah Maclean or 9/
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Lisa Kleypas for engaging regency hist-rom?) Then the cast announcement and more squees over the "diverse cast" drowned oupt the "umm, have y'all read "The Duke & I"? Nary a Black folk inside based on authorial POV of the whiteness of regency England. 10/
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Insert dramatic pause followed by revelation here: "The Duke and I" was published in 2000. Kretchen Hoolbrook Gerzina published "Black London: Life Before Emancipation" in 1995. OMG, there were Black, Brown, Asian folk in regency London. 11/
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February 2021: I haven’t watched the Bridgertons. I remain undecided whether to invest my time. I'm also
by how the series reaffirms a racist tendency in tradional publishing. This is were Willie Shakespeare comes in (you knew he'd show up again). 12/2 vastausta 1 uudelleentwiittaus 28 tykkäystäNäytä tämä ketju -
A story, pt 4: racial capitalism and white supremacy - the book trade. Two of these covers tell no lies about what’s inside. The third...welp 13/pic.twitter.com/FJm2bi0A58
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Book covers serve several purposes, to draw attention, to convey an idea as to what might be discovered between the pages. Definitely the case with Willie's O. Unless the "Duke & I's" author revised the book, what you see is not what you get. 14/
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So what am I seeing? A familiar rafficking in Black bodies. Covers of editions of "Othello" circulate as part of racial capitalism's white supremacist logic and readers know what they're getting: Iago's deception, Othello's and Dessi's dead body. 15/
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These covers are directed at specific gaze, a white gaze, and no matter how you adjust the lens they perpetuate a trafficking in anti-Blackness, in the policing of Black bodies, figuratively (the covers) and literally (Othello's death). 16/
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"The Duke & I" ... well, besides the publisher's deliberate campaign to market the book as "diversity" when the romance narrative inside is decidedly not diverse ... as much as a segement of Romancelandia and Netflix may wish it to be. 17pic.twitter.com/VkxmghVjhO
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Remember the Barnes and Noble diversity cover gimmick? What's on the outside doesn't match the inside and that's about as intelligent as these creatives are on "diversity" and representation in publishing and that Netflix show.pic.twitter.com/8xxoIAUW8V
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