Speaking Through Othello: Black Performance and the Training of Feeling
A lecture by Jason Allen-Paisant examining how Shakespeare's Othello has shaped Black performance, drawing on psychoanalytic theory and his own practice. AI summary of the listing
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In this lecture, Jason Allen-Paisant brings together psychoanalytic and critical theory with lived artistic practice to rethink what it means to inhabit Shakespeare’s most charged role. Drawing on Self-Portrait as Othello, he explores how the character has functioned as a symbolic demand placed on Black performance. Against traditions that presume a universal paternal order, the lecture asks what happens when that…
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