{"product_id":"inkface-othello-and-white-authority-in-the-era-of-atlantic-slavery-paperback-softback-9780813950372","title":"Inkface; Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813950372","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInkface\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOthello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMiles P. Grier (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813950372\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages, 16 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eInkface\u003c\/em\u003e, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Residue of Inkface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. The Moor of Venice Reconstructed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"O Bloody Period\": Othello'\u003cbr\u003es Constitution and Significance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Letter and Affection,\" or Iago'\u003cbr\u003es Motive Reconsidered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterlude: Desdemona'\u003cbr\u003es Guilt, or \"The Farce of Dead Alive\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \"Be Thus When Thou Art Dead\": Aphra Benh'\u003cbr\u003es Remediation of Othello\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"Pale as thy Smock\": Abigail Adams in Desdemona'\u003cbr\u003es Whites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Cherokee Othello: Treating with '\u003cbr\u003eThe Base Indian'\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Inkface to Chalkbones: The End of White Character Mastery in Melville'\u003cbr\u003es \"BC\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: An Ultimate Reader\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685402505496,"sku":"9780813950372","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/inkface-othello-and-white-authority-in-the-era-of-atlantic-slavery-paperback-softback-9780813950372","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}