Brandi Adams talks to Andy Kesson about literature, race and the canon
27 March, 2020
In: Conversations, History
Tagged: book history, early modern, literature, Performance, Race, Shakespeare
Brandi Adams tells us about the history of reading and the history of the book, literature, race and the canon. She asks us to think about what gets pushed to the margins of the page, the margins of literary history and the margins of conversation about literature.
For more on these ideas, see:
- Kim Hall Thing of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England 1995
- Ambereen Dadabhoy Website
- Ian Smith Race and Rhetoric in Renaissance England: Barbarian Errors 2009
- Ayanna Thompson Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race and Contemporary America 2011
- Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period 2013
- Margo Hendricks Talk: Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race 2019