| Description |
xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm |
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Pt. I. Democratic vistas. 1. Nativism, nationalism, and the common man in American constructions of Shakespeare. 2. Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams's "A Modern Lear" and the 1894 Pullman Strike. 3. Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the new dramas of democracy -- Pt. II. Prospero's books. 4. Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext. 5. After The Tempest: Shakespeare, postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's new, New World Miranda -- Pt. III. The Othello complex. 6. Enslaving the Moor: Othello, Oroonoko, and the recuperation of intractability. 7. "Like Othello": Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration and postcolonial self-fashioning -- Conclusion - Decolonizing Shakespeare: My Son's Story, Children of Light, and late imperial romance |
| Summary |
What becomes of Shakespeare's work in its translation from early modern playtext to colonialist pretext to postcolonial target? Repositioning Shakespeare explores how Shakespeare is appropriated or repositioned in contemporary, postcolonial cultures as they seek to renegotiate his standing as a privileged site of authority. Rather than read specific Shakespearean texts, Thomas Cartelli considers texts and events that are positioned in relation to the Bard: polemical essays by Walt Whitman; the 1849 Astor Place Riot; novels by Michelle Cliff, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone; and films by James Ivory and Gus Van Sant. Original and engaging, Repositioning Shakespeare provides new ways of understanding the relevance of Shakespeare--a sixteenth-century man--to modern life |
| Analysis |
Decolonization in literature |
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English drama -- Appreciation -- Commonwealth countries |
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English drama -- Appreciation -- United States |
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Nationalism and literature -- Commonwealth countries -History |
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Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States |
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -Commonwealth countries |
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United States -- Civilization -- English influences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index |
| Notes |
Original version xi, 233 p. 23 cm |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Commonwealth countries.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- United States.
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Decolonization in literature.
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English drama -- Appreciation -- Commonwealth countries.
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English drama -- Appreciation -- United States.
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Nationalism and literature -- Commonwealth countries -- History.
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Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History.
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Postcolonialism.
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United States -- Civilization -- English influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139955
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| Author |
MyiLibrary.
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| LC no. |
98030515 |
| ISBN |
0415191343 (alk. paper) |
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0415194989 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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