Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations / / Thomas Cartelli

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778863403321
• Autore: Cartelli Thomas.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• ISBN: 1-134-64732-8; 1-134-64733-6; 1-280-33210-7; 0-203-02565-2; 0-203-15959-4
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 233 p
• Disciplina: 822.3/3
• Soggetti: Nationalism and literature - Commonwealth countries - History; English drama - Appreciation - Commonwealth countries; Nationalism and literature - United States - History; English drama - Appreciation - United States; Decolonization in literature; Postcolonialism; United States Civilization English influences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.