Hamilton: An American Founding Father—or an Other?

Hamilton is a highly successful musical, both critically and commercially, which has been applauded for its revolutionary inclusivity: the musical famously casts people of color, despite characters being based on historical, living who were not including towering figures America’s ‘founding fathers’. A group critics, however—minor yet nonetheless vital voices—have denounced this as superficial diversity that perpetuates erasure color from history; no main character historical person color. While certain writers reviewers have offered rebuttals, there to be critical exposition himself, rather than representation founding father, instead what postcolonialists term ‘the other’; therefore making work opposite an societally othered minority groups. As such, paper examines, later finds, Hamilton’s indeed epitome—and thus prime representation, signaling undeniable presence—of other in text. Keywords: Musical Theater, American Literature, Postcolonialism, The Other, Immigrants.