Post-Colonial Shakespeares

by Ania Loomba (Editor), Martin Orkin (Editor)

Overview

This focused collection of essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging postcolonial period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134688555
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2003
Series:	New Accents
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	990 KB

About the Author

Ania Loomba is the author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989) and Colonialism/Post-Colonialism (1998). She is Associate Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Martin Orkin is the author of Shakespeare Against Apartheid (1987) and Drama and the South African State (1991). He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Table of Contents

Contributors

1. Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin-- Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question

Part 1

2. Jerry Brotton--'This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest

3. Jonathan Burton--'A most wily

bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference

4. Kim F. Hall--'These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets

5. Margo Hendricks--''Tis not the fashion to confess': 'Shakespeare-Post-coloniality-Johannesburg,

1996'

6. Avraham Oz--Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama

7. Terence Hawkes--Bryn Glas

8. Ania Loomba--'Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and

location in post-colonial Shakespeares

9. Michael Neill--Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre

10. Martin Orkin--Possessing the book and peopling the text

11. Nicholas Visser--Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South

African perspective

12. David Johnson--From the colonial to the post-colonial: Shakespeare and education in Africa

13. Andreas Bertoldi--Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet

14. Jonathan

Dollimore--Shakespeare and theory

References

Index

Editorial Reviews

'Post-colonial Shakespeare is an interesting and unusual book which is full of surprising and sometimes urgent insights that will excite students, scholars, and anyone else who is interested in either Shakespeare or 'our post-colonial condition'.' - Ewan Fernie, The Seventeenth Century

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