Post-Colonial Shakespeares

by Loomba,Ania

• ISBN13: 9780415173865
• ISBN10: 0415173868
• Format: Hardcover
• 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	vii	(2)
Contributors	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction: Shakespeare and the post-colonial question	1	(22)
Ania Loomba
Martin Orkin
Part 1	23	(120)
2 `This Tunis, sir, was Carthage': Contesting colonialism in The Tempest	23	(20)
Jerry Brotton
3 `A most wily bird': Leo Africanus, Othello and the trafficking in difference	43	(21)
Jonathan Burton
4 `These bastard signs of fair': Literary whiteness in Shakespeare's sonnets	64	(20)
Kim F. Hall
5 `'Tis not the fashion to confess': `Shakespeare--Post-coloniality--Johannesburg, 1996'	84	(14)
Margo Hendricks
6 Nation and place in Shakespeare: The case of Jerusalem as a national desire in early modern English drama	98	(19)
Avraham Oz
7 Bryn Glas	117	(26)
Terence Hawkes
Part 2	143	(134)
8 `Local-manufacture made-in-India Othello fellows': Issues of race, hybridity and location in post-colonial Shakespeares	143	(21)
Ania Loomba
9 Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre	164	(22)
Michael Neill
10 Possessing the book and peopling the text	186	(19)
Martin Orkin
11 Shakespeare and Hanekom, King Lear and land: A South African perspective	205	(13)
Nicholas Visser
12 From the colonial to the post-colonial: Shakespeare and education in Africa	218	(17)
David Johnson
13 Shakespeare, psychoanalysis and the colonial encounter: The case of Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet	235	(24)
Andreas Bertoldi
14 Shakespeare and theory	259	(18)
Jonathan Dollimore
References	277	(22)
Index	299