@JustinPShaw : we need to be aware of whom we center *and* whom we overlook in our discussions of Othello as a play. Are we centering Iago? Are we giving Cassio a pass, and therefore making "not as bad as Iago" a kind of "good" (à la, "I'm not like those Charlottesville ppl").
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@JustinPShaw : we need to look at all the racist characters, not just Iago, not just the ones who are wearing the hoods. Fascinating conversation calling attention to the difference between overt acts of racism (Iago) and passive racism (that's my own summary/phrasing).Näytä tämä ketju -
@JustinPShaw asks of Cassio, and also, implicitly, of us: "How much am I willing to risk my reputation for the benefit of the other?"Näytä tämä ketju -
re. stagings that have cast Cassio as black, and thinking about what difference those staging decisions might make: "It doesn't matter if Cassio is black; it matters what Cassio is doing."
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@JustinPShaw : "the blackness of Othello gets in the way of explaining what disability is" -- interesting contrast btwn the way we discuss epilepsy in Othello and Julius Caesar. "It's almost like we can't imagine Othello to be black *and* disabled."Näytä tämä ketju -
When Cassio says "rub him about the temples," Cassio is providing a medical diagnosis/solution to something that needs a wider or more comprehensive solution. And then he *leaves*! (and leaves him in *Iago's* hands!) Cassio figures the "good" wyt person ...
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... who isn't doing the kind of harm that Iago is doing, but is still, nevertheless, doing a significant kind of harm.
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(PS, much of this is a talking through
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@JustinPShaw : In our attempt to embody antiracism, and commit to antiracist scholarship, we shouldn't be unsuturing the wrong thing (taking out the work); we shouldn't undo the work of black women, in particular, who have stitched together this fabric of care in the first place.Näytä tämä ketju -
Justin Shaw: The handkerchief is a metaphor for lost community. Othello perhaps invests too much substance in it, but also, where else is he supposed to turn? He turns to Iago (and we see how that works out for him ...).
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The end! Thank you,
@JustinPShaw , and a reminder since I buried it mid-thread that the full article can be found here, if you find your interest piqued: https://earlytheatre.org/earlytheatre/article/view/3997 …Näytä tämä ketju
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