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Othello : new essays by Black writers

"The theme of this work is race and racism in Othello. The critical question raised is whether Othello is a racist play, written by a racist playwright, for a racist audience, or whether it is a play about racism, with Iago as the embodiment of racist attitudes. The perspectives, approaches, and conclusions of the essays are diverse."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1997
Howard University Press, Washington, D.C., 1997
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 223 pages ; 23 cm
9780882581910, 0882581910
35758266
Online version:
Background: Black or Tawny? Stage Representations of Othello from 1604 to the Present / Mythili Kaul
Othello: Or Ego in Love, Sex, and War / Earle Hyman
How I Would Direct Othello / Shelia Rose Bland
Three Great Ones of the City and One Perfect Soul: Well Met at Cyprus / James A. McPherson
From Japanese by Spring / Ishmael Reed
"Neg Pa Bon" ("Nigger No Good") / Maryse Conde
Did Shakespeare Intend Othello to Be Black? A Meditation on Blacks and the Bard / Playthell Benjamin
Hello, Othello / Al Young
Who Is Desdemona? / John A. Williams
"A Round Unvarnished Tale": (Mis)Reading Othello or African American Strategies of Dissent / Jacquelyn Y. McLendon
"Haply, for I Am Black": Othello and the Semiotics of Race and Otherness / Elliott Butler-Evans
Literature and Racism: The Example of Othello / S.E. Ogude
"At the Door of Truth": The Hollowness of Signs in Othello / Edward Washington
Devouring Discourses: Desire and Seduction in Othello / Lucille P. Fultz