The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 21.0004 Thursday, 7 January 2010
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Date: Wednesday, 6 Jan 2010 15:35:45 -0500
Subject: Book Announcement: "Weyward Macbeth"
Palgrave Macmillan is a global cross-market publisher specializing in
quality trade non-fiction and cutting-edge academic books.
Palgrave Macmillan is pleased to announce the publication of
WEYWARD MACBETH: INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND PERFORMANCE
Edited by Scott L. Newstok and Ayanna Thompson
Series: Signs of Race, edited by Gary Taylor and Arthur Little, Jr.
Publication Date: January 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-61633-2
ISBN10: 0-230-61633-X
For more information, please see: http://us.macmillan.com/weywardmacbeth
WEYWARD MACBETH, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative,
interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's Macbeth
has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial
constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the
enduringly fraught history of Macbeth in the United States, from its
appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American
colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic
cast. Over two dozen contributions explore Macbeth's haunting presence
in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and
directing -- all through the intersections of race and performance.
CONTENTS: PART I: Beginnings * What is a "Weyward" Macbeth? -- Ayanna
Thompson * Weird Brothers: What Thomas Middleton's The Witch Can Tell Us
about Race, Sex, and Gender in Macbeth -- Celia R. Daileader * PART II:
Early American Intersections * "Blood will have blood": Violence,
Slavery, and Macbeth in the Antebellum American Imagination -- Heather
S. Nathans * The Exorcism of Macbeth: Frederick Douglass's Appropriation
of Shakespeare -- John C. Briggs * Ira Aldridge as Macbeth -- Bernth
Lindfors * Minstrel Show Macbeth -- Joyce Green MacDonald * Reading
Macbeth in Texts by and about African Americans, 1903 -- 1944: Race and
the Problematics of Allusive Identification -- Nick Moschovakis * PART
III: Federal Theatre Project(s) * Before Welles: A 1935 Boston
Production -- Lisa N. Simmons * Black Cast Conjures White Genius:
Unraveling the Mystique of Orson Welles's "Voodoo" Macbeth -- Marguerite
Rippy * After Welles: Re-do Voodoo Macbeths -- Scott L. Newstok * The
Vo-Du Macbeth!: Travels and Travails of a Choreo-Drama Inspired by the
FTP Production -- Lenwood Sloan * PART IV: Further Stages * A Black
Actor's Guide to the Scottish Play, Or, Why Macbeth Matters -- Harry J.
Lennix * Asian American Theatre Re-imagined: Shogun Macbeth in New York
-- Alexander C. Y. Huang * The Tlingit Play: Macbeth and Native
Americanism -- Anita Maynard-Losh * A Post-Apocalyptic Macbeth: Teatro
LA TEA's Macbeth 2029 -- Jose A. Esquea * Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual
Macbeth -- William C. Carroll * PART V: Music * Reflections on Verdi,
Macbeth, and Non-Traditional Casting in Opera -- Wallace McClain
Cheatham * Ellington's Dark Lady -- Douglas Lanier * Hip-Hop Macbeths,
"Digitized Blackness," and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture
Sharing in the Virtual Classroom -- Todd Landon Barnes * PART VI: Screen
* Riddling Whiteness, Riddling Certainty: Roman Polanski's Macbeth --
Francesca Royster * Semper Die: Marines Incarnadine in Nina Menkes's The
Bloody Child: An Interior of Violence -- Courtney Lehmann * Shades of
Shakespeare: Colorblind Casting and Interracial Couples in Macbeth in
Manhattan, Grey's Anatomy, and Prison Macbeth -- Amy Scott-Douglass *
PART VII: Shakespearean (A)Versions * Three Weyward Sisters:
African-American Female Poets Conjure with Macbeth -- Charita
Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander * "Black up again": Combating
Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays -- Philip C. Kolin *
Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers
of Shakespeare -- Peter Erickson * Epilogue: ObaMacbeth: National
Transition as National Traumission -- Richard Burt * Appendix: Selected
Productions of Macbeth Featuring Non-Traditional Casting -- Brent
Butgereit and Scott L. Newstok
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