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Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa
Diversifying Shakespeare, Ruben Espinosa
Ruben Espinosa
“Turning To The Stranger In Shakespeare’S Henry V”, Ruben Espinosa
“Turning To The Stranger In Shakespeare’S Henry V”, Ruben Espinosa
Ruben Espinosa
This collection is currently under contract with MLA. With a twenty-first century American student demographic in mind, I aim to interrogate how attention to the negotiation of alterity in Henry V registers Shakespeare’s keen attention to the role of the immigrant/alien/stranger/other in the nation-building enterprise of the play, and also how it reveals the play’s rich cultural currency for today’s underrepresented students, whose own epistemological standpoints are informed by issues of immigration, xenophobia, and the imagined value of homogeneity.