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Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations / Thomas Cartelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cartelli, Thomas, author.
- Cartelli T Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--United States.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Commonwealth countries.
- Nationalism and literature--Commonwealth countries--History.
- Nationalism and literature.
- English drama--Appreciation--Commonwealth countries.
- English drama.
- Nationalism and literature--United States--History.
- English drama--Appreciation--United States.
- Decolonization in literature.
- Postcolonialism.
- United States--Civilization--English influences.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 233 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era, Thomas Cartelli considers: * essays by Walt Whitman * the nineteenth-century play, 'Jack Cade' * novels by Aphra Behn, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Michelle Cliff, Tayeb Salih, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone * the 1849 Astor Place Riot Cartelli places particular emphasis on redefining the 'postcolonial' in order to find a place for America. In doing so, Repositioning Shakespeare makes a considerable contribution to the continuing debate about the uses we make of Shakespeare.
- Contents:
- chapter Introduction
- part PART I Democratic vistas
- chapter 1 Nativism, nationalism, and the common man in American constructions of Shakespeare
- chapter 2 Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams's
- chapter 3 Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the Yellow Sands and the new dramas of democracy
- part PART II Prospero's books
- chapter 4 Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext
- chapter 5 After The Tempest: Shakespeare, postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's new, New World Miranda
- part PART III The Othello complex
- chapter 6 Enslaving the Moor: Othello, Oroonoko, and the recuperation of intractability
- chapter 7.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-64732-8
- 1-134-64733-6
- 1-280-33210-7
- 0-203-02565-2
- 0-203-15959-4
- 9780203025659
- OCLC:
- 807997523
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