Shakespeare and African American Poetics in Association with the Langston Hughes Review

Introduction

Authors

  • Sujata Iyengar University of Georgia

Keywords:

African American Studies, Poetics

Abstract

This Introduction uses the example of Langston Hughes's volume Shakespeare in Harlem to meditate on the connections between the two terms joined by the copula in this essay cluster's title, "Shakespeare and African American Poetics."

 

Author Biography

Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia

Sujata Iyengar is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. With Christy Desmet, she co-founded and co-edits Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation. Her single-authored books include Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin-Color in the English Renaissance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and Shakespeare's Medical Language (Continuum, 2011).

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2012. Image: Lady Macbeth cradles Macbeth who sits naked in a bloody bathtub. Masked figures look on.

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Published

2020-06-25

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012): Fall/Winter

Section

Articles