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 317
... Indies " lie " upon her nose , " where they are all “ o'er embellished with rubies , carbuncles , sapphires " ; that the woman surrenders " their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain , who [ has sent ] whole armadas of carracks to be ...
... Indies " lie " upon her nose , " where they are all “ o'er embellished with rubies , carbuncles , sapphires " ; that the woman surrenders " their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain , who [ has sent ] whole armadas of carracks to be ...
Page 319
... Indies " had once reduced the material of such encounters to that line drawing and comic print of his in which the protagonist had been " infected with all the germs of savage life , " ( Abrahams and Szwed 1983 : 12 ) . Sexual passion ...
... Indies " had once reduced the material of such encounters to that line drawing and comic print of his in which the protagonist had been " infected with all the germs of savage life , " ( Abrahams and Szwed 1983 : 12 ) . Sexual passion ...
Page 368
... Indies into a disorder- liness which has never translated well , of course . Gordon Rohlehr addresses the import of " character and rebellion " in A House for Mr. Biswas ( 1961 ) to relevant effect ; and here he points out that " on the ...
... Indies into a disorder- liness which has never translated well , of course . Gordon Rohlehr addresses the import of " character and rebellion " in A House for Mr. Biswas ( 1961 ) to relevant effect ; and here he points out that " on the ...
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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