Corredera, Vanessa I. "Resisting Lobotomized Shakespeare: Race in/and Appropriation." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/pcrs-and-appropriation-studies. [Date accessed].

PCRS and appropriation studies

Appropriation studies and PCRS give students more complete interpretive tools for analyzing racial representation.

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Vanessa I. Corredera
Andrews University

Resisting Lobotomized Shakespeare: Race in/and Appropriation | Watch the full talk

Presented by Vanessa I. Corredera at Appropriations: A RaceB4Race Symposium in 2020

Vanessa I. Corredera puts forward two premises for productively understanding racial representations in premodern critical race studies and in adaptations: first, that appropriations need PCRS; second, PCRS needs appropriation studies. She analyzes the Q Brothers’ adaptation Othello: The Remix as an example of an appropriation that does not critically engage with race and illustrates how crucially they need PCRS. Corredera reads Jordan Peele’s Get Out as an appropriation of Othello that offers a productive lens for engaging Shakespeare’s play. She concludes that taken together, appropriation studies and PCRS give students and scholars more complete interpretive tools for analyzing racial representation.

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