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Introduction: Experiencing Digital Shakespeares in the Global South Read chapter Read first chapter

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4. Practicing Digital Shakespeare in Latin America: Case Studies from Argentina and Brazil

Author : Amrita Sen

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Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter looks at two distinct but connected websites—Fundación Shakespeare Argentina and the “Shakespeare in Brazil” section of the MIT Global Shakespeares—that are aimed at making globally accessible the performances and textual translations from Latin America. This chapter argues that these websites open up new possibilities of community building through their curatorial strategies and social outreach. They not only act as repositories of actual performances, but also function as archives of communal memories. Through bi-lingual records of social media exchanges and transcriptions of performances, they open up new possibilities of accessing and reading Latin American Shakespeares. This chapter interrogates the global relevance of these websites by taking into consideration the often overlooked history of Shakespeare transmission in Latin America.

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Footnotes
1
See for instance Santos, “Mestizo Shakespeares: A Study of Cultural Exchange,” 11.
 
2
Modenessi, “‘You say you want a revolution?’ Shakespeare in Mexican [dis]guise,” 38.
 
3
Espinosa, “‘Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue’: Uneasy Assimilation and the Shakespeare-Latinx Divide,” 89; see also Modenessi.
 
5
The Show Must Go Online.
 
6
Santos, 11.
 
7
Barry, “Oswald de Andrade’s ‘Cannibalist Manifesto’,” 36.
 
8
Andrade, ‘Cannibalist Manifesto,’ 38.
 
9
Young, Shakespeare in the Global South 131; Camati, “Tupi or Not Tupi, That Is the Question,” 123–124.
 
10
Refskou, Carvalho and Amorim, “Introduction.”
 
11
The WSP directed by Sheila T. Cavanagh connects students at Emory University with students from partner institutions from across the globe using innovative digital technologies. The WSP website contains details of these student and faculty exchanges, including images and videos. However, not all the partner institutions, especially those from the Global South, offer parallel digital archives on their own websites documenting their experiences of these transcontinental Shakespeare classes. For more on WSP see Cavanagh.
 
12
FSA, “WSP In Argentina 2019.”
 
13
FSA, “World Shakespeare Project in Argentina.”
 
14
Enguidanos et al., “Now I am More or Less Who I am,” 165.
 
15
Tiffany, “Borges and Shakespeare, Shakespeare and Borges,” 147.
 
16
Melgarejo, “Borges, Shakespeare y la divulgación del arte.”
 
17
Trettein, “Shakespeares’s Globe Goes Global Shakespeares,” 155.
 
18
Joubin, “Online Media Report,” 245.
 
19
MIT Global Shakespeares, “About the Archive.”
 
20
O'Neill, Shakespeare and YouTube, 11.
 
21
Christy Desmet, “The Art of Curation.”
 
22
Ibid.
 
23
Ibid.
 
24
Theimer, “A Distinction Worth Exploring.”
 
25
Ibid.; see also Clement et al. “Toward a Notion of the Archive of the Future,” 112.
 
26
Price, “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection”; Clement et al., 113.
 
27
Derrida, 2.
 
28
Ibid.
 
29
Ibid.
 
30
See for instance Spivak, “The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives”; Stoler, Along the Archival Grain.
 
31
Mignolo, “Enacting the Archives.”
 
32
Walsh and Mignolo, “Introduction,” 4.
 
33
Modenessi, 37.
 
34
Not all the entries on the Global Shakespeares site have full videos owing to copyright issues, but many of them do. Even when full videos are unavailable selected clips often are.
 
35
Camati, A Megera Domada (The Taming of the Shrew).
 
36
Ibid.
 
37
Camati, “IntermedIal performance AesthetIcs In PatrícIa Fagundes’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 149.
 
38
Camati, Bruxas da Escócia.
 
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Metadata
Title
Practicing Digital Shakespeare in Latin America: Case Studies from Argentina and Brazil
Author
Amrita Sen
Copyright Year
2022
Book
Digital Shakespeares from the Global South

Print ISBN: 978-3-031-04786-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-031-04787-9

Copyright Year: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04787-9_4