Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of CultureThis complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay, and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's reception in Africa as compared with that in Europe and the Americas". |
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Page 64
... Christian ' tradition has often been simply a mockery of the cruel realities that lay beneath " ( 1994 : 101 ) . The coexistence of Jews and Christians in Europe , Bonfil points out , involved “ a complex process of continuous ...
... Christian ' tradition has often been simply a mockery of the cruel realities that lay beneath " ( 1994 : 101 ) . The coexistence of Jews and Christians in Europe , Bonfil points out , involved “ a complex process of continuous ...
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... Christian Kabbalah overemphasized this aspect of Jewish mystical lore . Time and again Christian Kabbalists explained the significance of gematria , notarikon , and temurah , fascinated by the new exegetical avenues opened by ...
... Christian Kabbalah overemphasized this aspect of Jewish mystical lore . Time and again Christian Kabbalists explained the significance of gematria , notarikon , and temurah , fascinated by the new exegetical avenues opened by ...
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... Christian Scripture ; and Religion had reinforced her appeal to America with due authority - in the prophetic voice of a St. Paul according to whom , all unknowing , the Indians had been worshipping the Christian God : " THE UNKNOWN GOD ...
... Christian Scripture ; and Religion had reinforced her appeal to America with due authority - in the prophetic voice of a St. Paul according to whom , all unknowing , the Indians had been worshipping the Christian God : " THE UNKNOWN GOD ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
womanchild in the compromised land | 17 |
The Lands of America and | 183 |
Copyright | |
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Shakespeare in Africa (& Other Venues): Import & the Appropriation of Culture Lemuel A. Johnson No preview available - 1998 |
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