Book Title: The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1

Authors: Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos, eds.

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For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare’s plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the US–Mexico Borderlands and to create space to tell stories of and for La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume open-access scholarly edition.

This anthology celebrates the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, and it situates these geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare’s global afterlives. The editors offer a critical framework for understanding the artistic and political traditions that shape these plays and the place of Shakespeare within the multilayered colonial histories of the region. Borderlands Shakespeare plays, they contend, do not simply reproduce Shakespeare in new contexts but rather use his work in innovative ways to negotiate colonial power and to envision socially just futures.

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Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos, eds.

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Title
The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1
Authors
Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos, eds.
License

All performance rights reside with the playwrights. Contact the playwrights for permission and information about performance fees.

Cover Illustration: Celeste De Luna, Healing Borderland Hand, 2022 (linocut print)

Publisher
ACMRS Press
Publication Date
March 31, 2023
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.54027/WVKM8278
Ebook ISBN
978-0-86698-840-7
Print ISBN
978-0-86698-841-4