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„From Shakespeare to Obama is a writerly, inventive, idiosyncratic series of meditations on language, slavery, rhetoric, and the public and the private, reaching into past and future, forging a new and exciting model for comparative scholarship as engaged story-telling.“ - Page duBois, Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego, USA
From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on „modern slavery.“ Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight into questions of otherness, rhetoric, and stereotyping.
