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Yim, Laura Lehua. "Reading Hawaiian Shakespeare: Indigenous Residue Haunting Settler Colonial Racism." Journal of American Studies 54, no. 1 (2020): 36-43.
Considers the usages of Shakespeare as an appropriation of colonial text by colonized persons in English and Hawaiian newspapers at the end of the 19th century, in the context of the 1893 overthrow and the United States’ annexation of Hawai’i. The essay highlights invocations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the figure of Banquo’s ghost. The scholarship is of interest to students of Shakespeare, American studies, and postcolonial studies.
