Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory

✍ Scribed by Jyotsna G. Singh

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare’s politics and poetics. Taking a historical perspective, it covers early modern discourses of colonialism, ‘race’, gender and globalization, through to contemporary intercultural appropriations and global adaptations of Shakespeare. Showing how the dialogue between Shakespeare criticism and postcolonial studies has evolved, this book offers a critical vocabulary that connects contemporary and early modern cultural struggles. Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory also provides guides to further reading and online resources which make this an essential resource for students and scholars of Shakespeare.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction: ‘An Inventory of Traces’
PART ONE Shakespeare and Early Colonial History
1 Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imaginary
2 Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare’s World and Productions of Difference
PART TWO Shakespeare, Decolonization, Postcolonial Theory
3 Past and Present: Shakespeare–Postcoloniality
4 Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and Difference
PART THREE Shakespeare, Postcoloniality, and Reception Histories: Performance and Film
5 Global, Inter-cultural Shakespeares
6 Boundary Crossings on the British Shakespearean Stage
7 Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet
Appendix
Notes
References
Index