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SUMMARY:Spotlight Talk: "Citing Race and Seeing Death in Shakespeare"
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Professor Arthur L. Little\, Jr.\, University of Califo
 rnia\, Los Angeles\n\nThis talk\, which begins with Ben Jonson’s reading
  of Shakespeare in the First Folio and ends with the promotion of the icon
 ic image of Lawrence Olivier as Hamlet in that play’s graveyard scene\, 
 focuses in between on the citation of a racialized Blackness circulating t
 hroughout Shakespeare’s plays. By “citation\,” this talk means the a
 ct of gesturing towards a Black presence\, for example\, the jewel in an E
 thiop’s ear in Romeo and Juliet\, without the possibility of the Black f
 igure being so conjured having any interlocutory or subjective possibiliti
 es. In the words of this presentation\, such figures in Shakespeare (somew
 here in the order of twenty of them) establish Black subjects as constitut
 ively dead objects. From the archives to the texts of Shakespeare’s play
 s\, what does this linkage of Blackness to death mean in broader conversat
 ions about race and Blackness and how\, arguably\, does its anticipate wha
 t Orlando Patterson has famously called the construction of “social deat
 h” within the system of American chattel slavery? While the construction
  of a racialized whiteness within Shakespeare’s texts is an important pr
 oject\, this particular talk seeks to understand Shakespeare’s Black cit
 ational practices by reading them through a paratextual white framing with
  Jonson on one end and Olivier on the other.\n\nArthur L. Little\, Jr.\, a
 n associate professor in the English Department at UCLA\, received his bac
 helor’s degree from Northwestern University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from 
 Harvard University.  His research focuses on Shakespeare and early modern
  race\, gender and sexuality\, and whiteness in the humanities.  He is th
 e author of Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race
 \, Rape\, and Sacrifice (Stanford 2000) and editor of White People in Shak
 espeare (Bloomsbury 2023). His works in progress include Shakespeare and R
 ace Theory (forthcoming from Bloomsbury) and Black Hamlet:  Disciplining 
 Race\, Memory\, and the Geno-Performative. In addition to these works\, Pr
 ofessor Little has published numerous articles and has lectured widely bot
 h nationally and internationally\, including in England\, South Africa\, S
 pain\, and Australia. His work on Shakespeare and whiteness is proving to 
 be particularly generative for Shakespeare scholars both in and outside Sh
 akespeare and early modern race studies. He has worked closely with the Sh
 akespeare Association of America\, the Globe Centre in London\, and the In
 ternational Shakespeare Conference (Stratford-upon-Avon).\n\nThe Clark Lib
 rary is pleased to display a selection of relevant materials from the coll
 ection at the lecture. For the list of materials on display with insights 
 from Professor Little Jr.\, please click here.\n\n\n\nThe lecture is free 
 to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at the Cl
 ark Library and livestreamed on the Center's YouTube Channel. No registrat
 ion is required to watch the livestream. Seating is limited at the Clark\;
  walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\nPh
 oto credit: Courtesy of Arthur L. Little\, Jr.
CATEGORIES:Lectures
LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street
 \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States
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