Latino/a engagement with Shakespeare presents a vital point of contact for us to reevaluate Shakespeare’s cultural currency in our contemporary, multiethnic society. By attending to dominant perceptions that shape Shakespeare’s iconic literary status, this essay explores how the dynamics of identity politics for Latino/as cast a novel light on the promise and the failings of Shakespeare studies amid the shifting demographic in America. This essay looks to the stranger—to a Latino/a audience and to Mexican Americans in particular—to examine how the anxieties and apprehensions that surround the Mexican American experience have the potential to lead us toward readings that both reimagine the valence of Shakespeare’s cultural capital and stand to enrich the future of Shakespeare studies. Through critical attention to linguistic differences, pressures of assimilation, perceived deficiencies and invisibility of Latino/as, accessibility and exclusion, and delineations of the way Shakespeare should look and sound, this essay opens the door to scrutinizing our academy’s seeming apprehension when it comes to issues of race, ethnicity, and diversity in our field. Such attention stands to guide us to see anew not only Shakespeare but also the future makers of Shakespeare.

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陌生人莎士比亚

拉丁裔/与莎士比亚的接触为我们重新评估莎士比亚在当代多民族社会中的文化传播提供了重要的接触点。通过关注塑造莎士比亚标志性文学地位的主导观念，本文探讨了拉丁裔/as 身份政治的动态如何在美国人口变化的情况下对莎士比亚研究的前景和失败提供新的启示。这篇文章着眼于陌生人——拉丁裔/观众，尤其是墨西哥裔美国人——研究围绕墨西哥裔美国人经历的焦虑和担忧如何有可能引导我们阅读既重新想象莎士比亚文化资本价值的读物并立志丰富莎士比亚研究的未来。通过对语言差异的批判性关注，同化的压力、拉丁裔/as 的感知缺陷和隐蔽性、可及性和排斥性，以及对莎士比亚的外观和声音方式的描述，这篇文章打开了审查我们学院在涉及种族、民族和我们领域的多样性。这种关注引导我们重新审视莎士比亚和未来的莎士比亚创作者。