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Repositioning Shakespeare : national formations, postcolonial appropriations /
What becomes of Shakespeare's work in its translation from early modern playtext to colonialist pretext to postcolonial target? Repositioning Shakespeare explores how Shakespeare is appropriated or repositioned in contemporary, postcolonial cultures as they seek to renegotiate his standing as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What becomes of Shakespeare's work in its translation from early modern playtext to colonialist pretext to postcolonial target? Repositioning Shakespeare explores how Shakespeare is appropriated or repositioned in contemporary, postcolonial cultures as they seek to renegotiate his standing as a privileged site of authority. Rather than read specific Shakespearean texts, Thomas Cartelli considers texts and events that are positioned in relation to the Bard: polemical essays by Walt Whitman; the 1849 Astor Place Riot; novels by Michelle Cliff, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone; and films by James Ivory and Gus Van Sant. Original and engaging, Repositioning Shakespeare provides new ways of understanding the relevance of Shakespeare--a sixteenth-century man--to modern life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203159594 9780203159590 0203025652 9780203025659 1134647328 9781134647323 1134647336 9781134647330 1280332107 9781280332104 |