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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783834603321

Titolo

Post-colonial Shakespeares / / edited by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledege, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-68855-5

0-203-44734-4

1-134-68856-3

1-280-06708-X

0-203-42651-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

New accents

Altri autori (Persone)

LoombaAnia

OrkinMartin

Disciplina

809.93358

822.33

Soggetti

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Race in literature

Postcolonialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; General editor's preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question; 'This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest; 'A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference; 'These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets; ''Tis not the fashion to confess': 'Shakespeare-Postcoloniality-Johannesburg, 1996'; Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama; Bryn Glas

'Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre; Possessing the book and peopling the text; Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South African perspective; From the colonial to the post-colonial:



Shakespeare and education in Africa; Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of

Sommario/riassunto

This focused collection of essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging postcolonial period.