Blackness and Shakespeare’s sonnets with Kim F. Hall

Описание: Kim Hall: Blackness and Shakespeare’s sonnets | Throughlines



How does Blackness shape the language of love and beauty in Shakespeare’s sonnets?

In this compelling talk, renowned scholar Kim F. Hall explores the racialized language of Shakespeare’s sonnets and traces how early modern notions of beauty, darkness, and desire continue to reverberate today. Drawing from her foundational work in early modern race studies and Black feminist thought, Hall guides us through a powerful re-reading of the sonnets—foregrounding how Blackness is constructed and resisted in one of the most canonical bodies of English literature.

Kim F. Hall is a leading scholar in Black feminist thought, early modern studies, and critical whiteness studies. Her work transforms how we read canonical texts and think about race in the archive.

✨ Discover how close reading, cultural history, and critical race theory illuminate Shakespeare’s text in bold new ways.

📚 Featuring: Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Chair of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College.



⏱️ Key moments:

00:00:35 – Race in Shakespeare’s works beyond Othello

00:01:08 – Sonnett 127 and the norm of whiteness

00:02:03 – Reading Sonnet 20 through a Black feminist lens

00:03:01 – The Dark Lady sonnets



🔗 Topics Covered:

• Shakespeare and critical race theory

• Racialized aesthetics in early modern literature

• Sonnet 127 and the ideology of fairness

• Black feminist approaches to canonical texts

• The persistence of racial language in literary traditions



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