Abstract
AbstractIn our introduction to the first Shakespeare Quarterly special issue on early modern race studies, Peter Erickson and I spoke of a ‘desire to sing a new scholarly song’ (Erickson and Hall, 2016, 13). Researching my current project, ‘Othello Was My Grandfather: Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora,’ I come across many Othello ‘citings’ that defy being folded into a traditional scholarly narrative, and I have been experimenting with incorporating personal voice – my strange style, if you will – in my writing. Responding to Ayanna Thompson’s intervention about the placement of the political investments of early modern race studies and the astute insights of Eric Debarros about the ways my personal experience recedes into the background in my earlier work, this is a personal meditation offering a sense of what it’s like to follow traces of Othello in archives meant to celebrate white achievement (De Barros, 2016, 623–4; Thompson 2008, 259–60).
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