Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection is a study of what Shakespeare means in former or still colonial geographies and how the various 21st-century Shakespeares impact questions of migrant and indigenous rights, colonial and marginalised identities, and race, class, and caste politics in 'post'-colonial spaces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Arden Shakespeare
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• 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: Amrita Dhar (University of California San Diego, 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 (Wenzhou-Kean University, China)
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