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

• Superior document: Edinburgh scholarship online
• VerfasserIn: Eklund, Hillary,
• TeilnehmendeR: Eklund, Hillary Caroline, 1977-; Hyman, Wendy Beth,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages).
• Notes: Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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

Table of Contents

• 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