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Record Nr.

UNINA9910403770603321

Autore

Eklund Hillary

Titolo

Teaching social justice through Shakespeare : why Renaissance literature matters now / / edited by Hillary Eklund and Wendy Beth Hyman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4744-7713-5

1-4744-5560-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

820.9003

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Social justice in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Making Meaning and Doing Justice with Early Modern Texts -- I. Defamiliarizing Shakespeare -- 1. Topical Shakespeare and the Urgency of Ambiguity -- 2. Shakespeare in Transition: Pedagogies of Transgender Justice and Performance -- 3. Shakespeare in Japan: Disability and a Pedagogy of Disorientation -- 4. Global Performance and Local Reception: Teaching Hamlet and More in Singapore -- II. Decolonizing Shakespeare -- 5. African-American Shakespeares: Loving Blackness as Political Resistance -- 6. Chicano Shakespeare: The Bard, the Border, and the Peripheries of Performance -- 7. “Intelligently organized resistance”: Shakespeare in the Diasporic Politics of John E. Bruce -- III. Ethical Queries and Practices -- 8. Sexual Violence, Trigger Warnings, and the Early Modern Classroom -- 9. Rural Shakespeare and the Tragedy of Education -- 10. Shakespearean Tragedy, Ethics, and Social Justice -- 11. Teaching Environmental Justice and Early Modern Texts: Collaboration and Connected Classrooms -- 12. Failing with Shakespeare: Political Pedagogy in Trump’s America -- IV. Revitalizing the Archive and Remixing Traditional Approaches -- 13. Teaching Serial with Shakespeare: Using Rhetoric to Resist -- 14. Adjunct Pleasure: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and



the Writing on the Walls -- 15. Confronting Bias and Identifying Facts: Teaching Resistance Through Shakespeare -- 16. Literary Justice: The Participatory Ethics of Early Modern Possible Worlds -- V. Shakespeare, Service, and Community -- 17. Shakespeare, Service Learning, and the Embattled Humanities -- 18. Teaching Shakespeare Inside Out: Creating a Dialogue Between Traditional and Incarcerated Students -- 19. “‘Shakespeare’ on his lips”: Dreaming of the Shakespeare Center for Radical Thought and Transformative Action -- 20. From Pansophia to Public Humanities: Connecting Past and Present Through Community-Based Learning -- 21. Cultivating Critical Content Knowledge: Early Modern Literature, Pre-service Teachers, and New Methodologies for Social Justice -- An Afterword About Self/ Communal Care -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.