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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962274703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998
• ISBN: 9781032296449; 1032296445; 9781134688555; 1134688555; 9780203447345; 0203447344; 9781134688562; 1134688563; 9781280067082; 128006708X; 9780203426517; 0203426517
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.