Columbus, Shakespeare, and the interpretation of the New World

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Title:

Author:

Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

ISBN:

9780312296155

Personal Author:

Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Physical Description:

xiv, 231 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Columbus and the Natives -- 3. After Columbus -- 4. Sexing America -- 5. Between Cultures -- 6. Shakespeare's Island -- 7. Cultural Appropriation : Colonialism and Postcolonialism -- 8. Afterword.

Abstract:

"Columbus, Shakespeare and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Knowledge-Geography.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Knowledge-America.

Columbus, Christopher-In literature.

Subject Term:

English literature -- History and criticism.

Geographical discoveries in literature.

Geography in literature.

Explorers in literature.

Indians in literature.

Islands in literature.

Geographic Term:

America -- Discovery and exploration -- Historiography.

America -- In literature.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002074937.html

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Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest , and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.