{"product_id":"inkface-miles-p-grier-9780813950372","title":"Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInkface\u003c\/i\u003e, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eOthello\u003c\/i\u003e from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. \u003ci\u003eInkface\u003c\/i\u003e examines that fraternity's reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles P. Grier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813950376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813950372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.77d","brand":"Miles P. Grier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44254693392639,"sku":"9780813950372","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3389fdeb-5917-4840-a7b9-0abdea62dc85.jpg?v=1694613842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inkface-miles-p-grier-9780813950372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}