Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations

by Thomas Cartelli

Book Overview

Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era, Thomas Cartelli considers:
* essays by Walt Whitman
* the nineteenth-century play, 'Jack Cade'
* novels by Aphra Behn, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Michelle Cliff, Tayeb Salih, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone
* the 1849 Astor Place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415194989
• ISBN13: 9780415194983
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"