Asian interventions in global Shakespeare : 'all the world's his stage' / edited by Poonam Trivedi, Paromita Chakravarti, and Ted Motohashi

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trivedi, Poonam, 1949- editor.

Chakravarti, Paromita, editor.

Motohashi, Ted, editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Appreciation--Asia.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Stage history--Asia.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Art appreciation.

Asia.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021

Summary:

"This volume critically analyses and theorizes Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare's 'universality' from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the 'global bard' as a recognizable brand, and how Asian Shakespeares have contributed to or subverted this process by both facilitating the worldwide dissemination of the bard's plays and challenging and resisting the very templates through which they become globally legible. Critically acclaimed Asian productions have prominently figured at premier Western festivals, and popular Asian appropriations like Bollywood, manga and anime have created new kinds of globally accessible Shakespeare. Essays in this collection engage with the emergent critical issues: the efficacy of definitions of the 'local', 'global', 'transnational' and 'cosmopolitan' and of the liminalities and mobilities in between. They further examine the politics of 'West' and 'East', the evolving markers of the 'Asian' and the equation of the 'global' with the 'Asian'; they attend to performance and archiving protocols and bring the current debates on translation, appropriation, and world literature to speak to the concerns of global and transnational Shakespeare. These investigations analyses recent innovative Asian theatre productions, popular cinematic and manga appropriations and the increasing presence of Shakespeare in the Asian digital sphere. They provide an Asian standpoint and lens in rereading the processes of cultural globalization and the mobilization of Shakespeare."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Asian `Global' and Its Discontents

1. Making Meaning between the Local and the Global: Performing Shakespeare in India Today / Poonam Trivedi

2. How Could We Present a `A Non-localised' Shakespeare in Asia? Colonialism and Atlantic Slave-Trade in Yamanote-Jijosha's The Tempest / Ted Motohashi

3. `We Will Perform in Measure, Time and Place': Synchronicity, Signification and Cultural Mobility in Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio's Cantonese-Language Macbeth / Mike Ingham

4. From Cultural Mobility to Cultural Misunderstanding: Japanese Style of Love in Akio Miyazawa's Adaptation in the Cardenio Project, Motorcycle Don Quixote / Mariko Anzai

5. Something Rotten in the State of Dankot: Hamlet and the Kingdom of Nepal / Andronicus Aden

pt. II The Asian Cinematic and Digital Sphere: Democratising the `Global'

6. Globalising the City: Kolkata Films and the Millennial Bard / Paromita Chakravarti

7. Shakespeare's Uses in Chinese Media and Trans-Sphere / Lingui Yang

8. Bardolators and Bardoclasts: Shakespeare in Manga/Anime and Cosplay / Yukari Yoshihara

9. Shakespeare on the Internet: Global and South Asian Appropriations / Thomas Kullmann

10. The Performance Archive and the Digital Construction of Asian Shakespeare / Judy Celine Ick

pt. III Historicising the Asian Global: Shakespeare as a World Poet

11. Global Shakespeare and the Question of a World Literature / Supriya Chaudhuri

12. Beyond Bardolatry: Rabindranath Tagore's Critique of Shakespeare's The Tempest / Swati Ganguly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-243) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version : Asian interventions in global Shakespeare.

ISBN:

0367615193

9780367615192

9780367615154

0367615150

OCLC:

1155566120