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September 27, 2025HumanitiesOpen Access

“A Kind of Hamlet”: Rescripting Shakespeare and the Refusal of Racial Scripts in James Ijames’s Fat Ham

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VCVanessa I. Corredera

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Overview

This analysis explores how Fat Ham reveals challenges of racial capitalism in Shakespearean performance, suggesting possibilities for Black artistic resistance.

Key Points

  • Fat Ham confronts historical racial scripts, promoting the complexity of Black subjectivity amidst white supremacy.
  • W.E.B. Du Bois's insights from 1926 remain pertinent, as Black artists still navigate limited spaces in American theater.
  • The adaptation engages with existing pressures in contemporary theater, illustrating resistance strategies for Black performers.
  • Through counterscripts, Fat Ham challenges capitalist frameworks that seek to define Black artistic expression.

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Vanessa I. Corredera (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d7cc66eebfec0fc52387bfhttps://doi.org/10.3390/h14100188
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