Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era, Thomas Cartelli considers: * essays by Walt Whitman * the nineteenth-century play, 'Jack Cade' * novels by Aphra Behn, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Michelle Cliff, Tayeb Salih, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone * the 1849 Astor Place Riot Cartelli places particular emphasis on redefining the 'postcolonial' in order to find a place for America. In doing so, Repositioning Shakespeare makes a…mehr
Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era, Thomas Cartelli considers: * essays by Walt Whitman * the nineteenth-century play, 'Jack Cade' * novels by Aphra Behn, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Michelle Cliff, Tayeb Salih, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone * the 1849 Astor Place Riot Cartelli places particular emphasis on redefining the 'postcolonial' in order to find a place for America. In doing so, Repositioning Shakespeare makes a considerable contribution to the continuing debate about the uses we make of Shakespeare.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Thomas Cartelli is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience, which was awarded the 1991 Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe.
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INTRODUCTION Part 1 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Chapter 1 NATIVISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE COMMON MAN IN AMERICAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE Chapter 2 SHAKESPEARE AT HULL HOUSE: JANE ADDAMS'S "A MODERN LEAR" AND THE 1894 PULLMAN STRIKE Chapter 3 SHAKESPEARE, 1916: CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS AND THE NEW DRAMAS OF DEMOCRACY Part 2 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 3 THE OTHELLO COMPLEX Chapter 6 ENSLAVING THE MOOR: OTHELLO, OROONOKO, AND THE RECUPERATION OF INTRACTABILITY Chapter 7 "LIKE OTHELLO": TAYEB SALIH'S SEASON OF MIGRATION AND POSTCOLONIAL SELF-FASHIONING Conclusion Notes Works Cited INDEX
INTRODUCTION Part 1 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS Chapter 1 NATIVISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE COMMON MAN IN AMERICAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE Chapter 2 SHAKESPEARE AT HULL HOUSE: JANE ADDAMS'S "A MODERN LEAR" AND THE 1894 PULLMAN STRIKE Chapter 3 SHAKESPEARE, 1916: CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS AND THE NEW DRAMAS OF DEMOCRACY Part 2 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 3 THE OTHELLO COMPLEX Chapter 6 ENSLAVING THE MOOR: OTHELLO, OROONOKO, AND THE RECUPERATION OF INTRACTABILITY Chapter 7 "LIKE OTHELLO": TAYEB SALIH'S SEASON OF MIGRATION AND POSTCOLONIAL SELF-FASHIONING Conclusion Notes Works Cited INDEX
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