Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations

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Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations
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national formations, postcolonial appropriations
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Thomas Cartelli
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Language
eng
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
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N$T
Dewey number
822.3/3
Index
index present
LC call number
PR2971.U6
LC item number
C37 1999eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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