Tempests after Shakespeare / Chantal Zabus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zabus, Chantal J.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shipwreck survival in literature.

Airplane crash survival in literature.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Influence.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Caliban (Fictitious character).

Castaways in literature.

Islands in literature.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Physical Description:

x, 332 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

"Tempests after Shakespeare" shows how the " rewriting" of Shakespeare' s play serves as an interpretive grid through which to read three movements- postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism- via the "Tempest" characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century. Covering texts in three languages, from four continents, and over the last four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and the varied critiques of representation that make up the " postmodern condition."

Contents:

Introduction: On Rewriting 1

Part I Calibanic Postcoloniality 9

Chapter 1 The Deprivileging of Prospero 11

Chapter 2 The Rise of Caliban 43

Chapter 3 Caliban on the Edge 81

Part II Miranda and Sycorax on the "Eve" of Postpatriarchy 103

Chapter 4 The Canadian Miranda and the Law of the Father 105

Chapter 5 Caribbean Increments to Miranda's Story 127

Chapter 6 Including America: The Indian Maiden and the Bedizened Crone 155

Part III The Return of Postmodern Prospero 177

Chapter 7 The Pleasures of Intergalactic Exile 181

Chapter 8 The Other Niece of Utopia: Fantasy 205

Chapter 9 Sinister Variants on Enclosure 221

Chapter 10 Flaunting The Tempest: From "Insubstantial Pageant" to Celluloid Fresco 243

Conclusion: The Selfish Meme 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312293429

0312295480

OCLC:

48399048