This introduction both models how one might read race, blackness, activism and Shakespeare and contextualizes the many “Shakespeares” that might be at work in the essays in this cluster, which emerge from the Shakespeare Association of America seminar Shakespeare and Black America. It suggests that scholars in this Shakespearean subfield have political, pedagogical and personal investments that both overlap with and diverge from Shakespeare study as traditionally understood. It addresses some of the complexities of performing, teaching and reading Shakespeare not as an agent of cultural dominion, but as part of resistance and activism in black America.

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论坛：莎士比亚与美国黑人

这篇介绍既模拟了人们如何阅读种族、黑人、激进主义和莎士比亚，又将可能在该集群中的文章中起作用的许多“莎士比亚”置于语境中，这些文章来自美国莎士比亚协会研讨会莎士比亚和美国黑人。它表明，莎士比亚这一子领域的学者在政治、教育和个人方面的投资既与传统意义上的莎士比亚研究重叠，又与莎士比亚研究不同。它解决了表演、教学和阅读莎士比亚的一些复杂性，而不是作为文化统治的代理人，而是作为美国黑人抵抗和激进主义的一部分。