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Following in the tradition of Sojourner Truth’s famous address “Ar’n’t I a Woman?,” Dennis Britton asks if Nikki Giovanni might be considered a Shakespearean. His essay recovers Giovanni’s commentary on the cultural purchase of Shakespeare and uses it to expose and challenge the implied white male identity of the Shakespeare scholar.
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Britton, D.A. (2018). Ain’t She a Shakespearean: Truth, Giovanni, and Shakespeare. In: Smith, C., Jones, N., Grier, M. (eds) Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76786-4_12
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