Manojit Mandal

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism

The Bard and the Raj

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781032379227
• ISBN-10: 1032379227
• Artikelnr.: 69948687

Autorenporträt

Manojit Mandal is a Professor of English at Jadavpur University and at present the Chair of the department. He has published several articles in various national/international journals and books in the fields of Shakespeare, postcolonial theory, Shakespeare in Bengal, Tagore, and disability studies. He has published two books in the area of disability studies and higher education in India. He is also the Joint Coordinator, Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, JU, and is the Principal Investigator on two UGC-RUSAII projects on Tagore, transnationalism, and global south.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Beginning of Shakespeare Study in India 2. Imperfect Interfaces: Vidyasagar
Hemchandra
Girishchandra
and Their Shakespeare 3. Raging the Storm: Bankimchandra
Rabindranath
and The Tempest 4. Murders in Shakespeare: Othello and a Forgotten Native 5. Weight of this sad time...: King Lear and the Fear of the Raj? 6. And the Bard Raj continues...: Nationalism
Shakespeare
and Postcolonial India