Title:
Post-colonial Shakespeares
Author:
Loomba, Ania.
ISBN:
9780415173865
9780415173872
Publication Information:
London : Routledge, 1998.
Physical Description:
x, 308 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series:
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Series Title:
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Contents:
1. Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question / Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin -- 2. 'This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest / Jerry Brotton -- 3. 'A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference / Jonathan Burton -- 4. 'These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets / Kim F. Hall -- 5. 'Tis not the fashion to confess': 'Shakespeare - Postcoloniality - Johannesburg, 1996' / Margo Hendricks -- 6. Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama / Avraham Oz -- 7. Bryn Glas / Terence Hawkes -- 8. 'Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares / Ania Loomba -- 9. Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre / Michael Neill -- 10. Possessing the book and peopling the text / Martin Orkin.
11. Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South African perspective / Nicholas Visser -- 12. From the colonial to the post-colonial: Shakespeare and education in Africa / David Johnson -- 13. Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet / Andreas Bertoldi -- 14. Shakespeare and theory / Jonathan Dollimore.
Abstract:
This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as 'colonization', 'race' and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently as 'colonial' forms of knowledge.