Shakespeare in the 'Post'colonies

Legacies, Cultures and Social Justice
Herausgeber: Dhar, Amrita; Bigliazzi, Silvia; Schalkwyk, David; Lei, Bi-Qi Beatrice; Sen, Amrita

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule. Arguing for the 'Post'Colonies as a distinct category within Global Shakespeares, this volume explores the reality of 21st-century Shakespeares in geographies of post-colonial and postcolonial inheritance, such as continental Africa, Australasia, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and the Americas. As former colonies in Asia and Africa cross fifty and even seventy years of political independence, contributors re-examine the presence of Shakespeare in marginalised or politically disenfranchised communities, interrogating how Shakespeare intersects with the internal and global power dynamics of post-independence nations. The essays cover a rich array of genres ranging from theatrical performances, translations, and cinematic adaptations to classroom strategies. They turn to texts that have often gone ignored and give voice to Shakespeare appropriations by subaltern groups. Essays address questions of race, gender, nationality, indigeneity, caste and class, shedding new light on the diverse range of contemporary Shakespeare engagements across the global 'Post'Colonies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350344143
• ISBN-10: 1350344141
• Artikelnr.: 71869199

Autorenporträt

Amrita Dhar is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, USA. Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, India. She has co-edited Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (2020), and a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on 'Alternative Histories of the East India Company' (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
- Postcolonial Reciprocities, Poonam Trivedi (Delhi University, India)
- Traveling with Global Shakespeares into the Future, Jyotsna Singh
(Michigan State University, USA)
Introduction: Shakespeare in the 'Post' Colonies: What's Shakespeare to
Them, or They to Shakespeare - Amrita Dhar (Ohio State University, USA) and
Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)
Chapter 1. In States Unborn and Accents Yet Unknown: Shakespeare and
Australian Indigenous Performance, Margaret Harvey (University of
Melbourne, Australia) and David McInnis (University of Melbourne,
Australia)
Chapter 2. Reincarnating Barbary: Translating Intersections of Race and
Gender in Desdemona and Wesoo Hamlet! Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (University of
Bayreuth, Germany)
Chapter 3. Hyperion to a satyr? Shakespeare and Post-Colonial Nostalgia in
Aden, Katherine Hennessey (American University of Kuwait, Kuwait)
Chapter 4. The Fatal Attraction of Empress Americana: Yamanote Jijosha's
Titus Andronicus as Japan's Postcolonial Allegory - Bi-qi Beatrice Lei
(National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chapter 5. 'I am born to tame you, Kate': Irreverent Submission in a
Postcolonial Filipino Taming of the Shrew (2002), Kirsten N. Mendoza
(University of Dayton, USA)
Chapter 6. 'We have also studied him': Shakespeare and the Dalit Reader,
Vijeta Kumar (St. Joseph's College, India)
Chapter 7. Nationbuilding Through Shakespeare: Ariel in Latin America, Ana
Weinberg (De Montfort University, UK)
Chapter 8. Post-9/11 Othello: Representing the Global Post-colony in Iqbal
Khan's 2015 RSC production, Zainab Cheema (Florida Gulf Coast University,
USA)
Chapter 9. Whose Side Are You On? Settler Colonial Shakespeare and
Indigenous Resistance - Madeline Sayet (Arizona State University, USA)
Afterword: Are We Post-colonial Yet? Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington
University, USA)
Notes
Index