African Shakespeare
Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations
Series: Routledge Studies in African Literature;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 17 February 2025
- ISBN 9781032487809
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 589 g
- Language English 688
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Short description:
African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts.
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African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeuvre in African contexts.
Divided into three broad and overlapping parts, the chapters of the book critically explore issues of decoloniality and postcoloniality; nation-building and state corruption; history and memory; gender and feminism; translation and adaptation from diverse theoretical standpoints. The book displaces the emphasis on Shakespeare?s works to productively illuminate the multi-layered significance of African epistemes, politico-aesthetics, languages and socio-cultural realities to the practice and process of literary and theatrical intervention and creation. Building on and extending extant scholarship in the field of African Shakespeare, the contributions in the volume not only enhance knowledge of African Shakespearean creations but also enrich African Studies and Shakespeare Studies by opening up new possibilities for transdisciplinary dialogues and cross-fertilization.
The book will be useful for students and scholars of African Theatre and Performance, Cultural Studies, (Global) Shakespeare Studies, Translation and Adaptation Studies and Post-colonial Studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Section One: Subversions 1. Social (Mis)Conduct, Yor?bá Moral Epistemology, and W?sóo, Hamlet! 2. The Politics and Political Aesthetics of Shakespeare?s (Re)Sources. 3. Ways of Retelling Shakespeare's The Tempest across Time and Space 4. Playing with the Un/Dead: Translation, Memory and the Politics of Gendered Identity in Femi Osofisan?s Wesoo, Hamlet! Section Two: Appropriations 5. The Merchant, the Capitalists and the Usurer: The Merchant of Venice in East Africa between Nation and Self 6. Refracted from the Canon: The Transmuted Form of Europe?s Ambassador in Africa 7. Julius Nyerere?s Translation of Julius Caesar: A Question of Political Relevance Section Three: Negotiations 8. ?You all did love him once, not without cause?: Shakespeare, Discourse and the Rise and Fall of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe 9. Shakespearean Drama in the Context of Crisis: Playing Out Language, Power and Politics in Zimbabwe?s ?New Dispensation? 10. Shakespeare and Soyinka: A Fight Against the Rotten
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