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Native Shakespeares : indigenous appropriations on a global stage / edited by Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia.

Dionne, Craig, (editor.). Kapadia, Parmita, (editor.).

Summary:

"Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed, and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures. Contributors show that Shakespeare, regardless of the medium - theater, pedagogy, or literary studies - is commonly "rooted" in the local customs of a people in ways that challenge the notion that his drama promotes a Western idealism. Native Shakespeares examines how the persistent indigenization of Shakespeare complicates the traditional vision of his work as a voice of Western culture and colonial hegemony. The international range of the collection and the focus on indigenous practices distinguishes Native Shakespeares from other available texts."--back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1138278416
ISBN: 9781138278417
Physical Description: ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London ; Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

General Note:	First published in 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The face in the mirror: Joyce's Ulysses and the lookingglass Shakespeare / Thomas Cartelli -- Commonplace literacy and the Colonial scene: the case of Carriacou's Shakespeare Mas / Craig Dionne -- "The forms of things unknown": Richard Wright and Stephen Henderson's quiet appropriation / John Carpenter -- The fooler fooled: Salman Rushdie's hybrid revision of William Shakespeare's Hamlet through "Yorick" / Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan et al. -- Jatra Shakespeare: indigenous Indian theater and the postcolonial stage / Parmita Kapadia -- Nationalizing the Bard: Quebecois adaptations of Shakespeare since the quiet revolution / Jennifer Drouin -- An aboriginal As You Like It: staging reconciliation in a drama of desire / Maureen McDonnell -- Movers and losers: Shakespeare in Charge and Shakespeare Behind Bars / Niels Herold -- Shakespeare and transculturation: Aime Cesaire's A Tempest / Pier Paolo Frassinelli -- Twin obligations in Solomon Plaatje's Diphosho-phosho / Ameer Sohrawardy -- In fair Havana, where we lay our scene: Romeo and Juliet in Cuba / Fonna Woodford-Gormley -- "I am no Othello, I am a lie": Shakespeare's Moor and the post-exotic in Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North / Atef Laouyene.