Post-Colonial Shakespeares

by Loomba,Ania; Loomba,Ania

• ISBN13: 9780415173872
• ISBN10: 0415173876
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Unique in its focus,Post-Colonial Shakespearesexamines how our assumptions about key ideas such as 'colonization', 'race', and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture and looks at how such terms are themselves embedded in "colonial" forms of knowledge. Featuring original work by some of the leading critics within the field, this impressive volume explores the multiple ways of reading Shakespeare in our postcolonial context. Contributors: Andreas Bertoldi, Jerry Brotton, Jonathan Burton, Jonathan Dollimore, Terence Hawkes, Margo Hendricks, David Johnson, Michael Neill, Avraham Oz, Nicholas Visser.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
	p. 21
'this Tunis, Sir, Was Carthage'	p. 23
'A Most Wily Bird'	p. 43
'these Bastard Signs of Fair'	p. 64
''tis Not the Fashion to Confess'	p. 84
Nation and Place in Shakespeare	p. 98
Bryn Glas	p. 117
	p. 141
'Local-Manufacture Made-In-India Othello Fellows'	p. 143
Post-Colonial Shakespeare? Writing Away from the Centre	p. 164
Possessing the Book and Peopling the Text	p. 186
Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and Land	p. 205
From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial	p. 218
Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis and the Colonial Encounter	p. 235
Shakespeare and Theory	p. 259
References	p. 277
Index	p. 299
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