Espinosa Ruben - Shakespeare and Immigration

SHAKESPEARE AND IMMIGRATION

For our children

Edited by

RUBEN ESPINOSA
University of Texas at El Paso, USA

and

DAVID RUITER
University of Texas at El Paso, USA

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

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Shakespeare and immigration / edited by Ruben Espinosa and David Ruiter.

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Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-1100-0 (hardcover) 1. Shakespeare, William, 15641616Political and social views. 2. Immigrants in literature. 3. Refugees in literature. 4. Race in literature. 5. Social ethics in literature. 6. Emigration and immigration in literature. 7. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 8. Literature and societyEnglandHistory16th century. I. Espinosa, Ruben, 1975editor. II. Ruiter, David, 1967 editor.

PR3024.S55 2014
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2013015962

ISBN 9781409411000 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315608570 (ebk)

Ruben Espinosa and David Ruiter

Eric Griffin

Geraldo U. de Sousa

Kathryn Vomero Santos

Ruben Espinosa

Bernadette Andrea

Bindu Malieckal

Imtiaz Habib

Peter Erickson

Elizabeth Valdez Acosta

David Ruiter

Elizabeth Valdez Acosta is a Ph.D. candidate at Wayne State University. Her research focuses on Shakespeare, gender, identity, and alterity. She has presented her work at regional, national, and international conferences and is currently at work on a dissertation that examines the role of marginalized and minor female characters in the works of Shakespeare.

Bernadette Andrea is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her research interests include early modern studies, womens studies, the interactions between Islam and the West in the early modern period, and early modern discourses of empire. She is the author of Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and coeditor, with Linda McJannet, of Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds (Palgrave, 2011).

Peter Erickson teaches in the theater department at Northwestern University with an affiliation in African American studies. He is one of the founders of feminist Shakespeare criticism, and his current research examines issues of race, including racial whiteness, in early modern and contemporary literature and culture. Erickson is the author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeares Drama (University of California Press, 1985), Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (University of California Press, 1991), and Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and the Arts (Palgrave, 2007).

Ruben Espinosa is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on Shakespeare, early modern culture and gender studies, the intersection between the Virgin Mary and masculinity in post-Reformation English culture and literature, and early modern immigration studies. He is the author of Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeares England (Ashgate, 2011).

Eric Griffin is Associate Professor of English at Millsaps College. His research centers on Anglo-Hispanic literary and cultural relations in the late medieval and early modern periods. Griffin directs the Millsaps College Program in Latin American Studies, and he is the author of English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).

Imtiaz Habib is Professor of Literature at Old Dominion University. The focus of his teaching and research is on Shakespeare, postcolonial perspectives on early modern drama and literature, and the history of drama. He is the author of numerous articles, and his book publications include Black Lives in the English Archives, 15001677: Imprints of the Invisible (Ashgate, 2007), Shakespeare and Race: Postcolonial Praxis in the Early Modern Period (University Press of America, 2000), and Shakespeares Pluralistic Concepts of Character: A Study in Dramatic Anamorphism (Susquehanna University Press, 1993).

Bindu Malieckal is Associate Professor at Saint Anselm College. Her research examines the representations of Muslims, Jews, women and gender in relation to India, and early modern culture and literature. She has published in various journals that include The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal and Shakespeare Yearbook, and in the volumes The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England (University of Delaware Press, 2008), The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (Palgrave, 2010), and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds (Palgrave, 2011). She is currently completing a book on English and European trade with India.

David Ruiter is Associate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. His research focuses on Shakespeare, early modern literatures, immigration, and the ethics of hospitality. He is the author of Shakespeares Festive History: Feasting, Festivity, Fasting, and Lent in the Second Henriad (Ashgate, 2003).

Kathryn Vomero Santos is a Ph.D. candidate in literature at New York University. Her research interests include translation studies, early modern English drama and culture, early modern Spanish literature, and the role of languages, linguistics, and material culture in early modern literature. Her dissertation, Staging Translation in Early Modern English Drama, locates the processes and problems of translation with the diverse spaces, practices, and texts of early modern English drama.

Geraldo U. de Sousa is Professor of English at the University of Kansas and the editor of the journal, Mediterranean Studies (Manchester University Press). His research focuses on Shakespeare, early modern English drama, and cross-cultural experience in early modern culture and literature, and he has published numerous articles on these issues. He is the author of At Home in Shakespeares Tragedies (Ashgate, 2010) and Shakespeares Cross-Cultural Encounters (Palgrave, 1999).