Research Catalog

Title

Othello : new essays by Black writers / edited with a background essay by Mythili Kaul.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1997, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaul, Mythili, 1938-

Description

xii, 223 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Tragedy
• Blacks in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Othello
• Muslims in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.

Contents

Background--Black or tawny? : stage representations of Othello from 1604 to the present / Mythili Kaul -- Othello, or, Ego in love, sex, and war / Early 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 -- "Nèg pa bon" ("Nigger no good") / Maryse Condé -- 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.

Call Number

Sc D 97-1516

ISBN

0882581910 (pbk.)

LCCN

96047192

OCLC

35758266

Title

Othello : new essays by Black writers / edited with a background essay by Mythili Kaul.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1997, c1996.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-211) and index.

Added Author

Kaul, Mythili, 1938-

Research Call Number

Sc D 97-1516