Repositioning Shakespeare National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 03/01/1999
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What becomes of Shakespeare's work in its translation from early modern playtext to colonialist pretext to postcolonial target?
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Repositioning Shakespeare explores how Shakespeare is appropriated or repositioned in contemporary, postcolonial cultures as they seek to renegotiate his standing as a privileged site of authority. Rather than read specific Shakespearean texts, Thomas Cartelli considers texts and events that are positioned in relation to the Bard: polemical essays by Wait Whitman; the 1849 Astor Place Riot; novels by Michelle Cliff, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone; and films by James Ivory and Gus Van Sant. Original and engaging, Repositioning Shakespeare provides new ways of understanding the relevance of Shakespeare -- a sixteenth-century man -- to modern life.
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