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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... West " that Octavio Paz derives from The Tempest in his Conjunctions and Disjunctions : " For the Christian West , " Paz writes , " foreign societies were always the incarnation of evil . Whether savage or civilized , they were ...
... West " that Octavio Paz derives from The Tempest in his Conjunctions and Disjunctions : " For the Christian West , " Paz writes , " foreign societies were always the incarnation of evil . Whether savage or civilized , they were ...
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... West in Salman Rushdie's " strong vellum " ( 1994 ) . Like the earth upon which it is supposed to exist , " this noble stuff , " the narrative explains , “ endures - if not forever , then at least till men consciously destroy it ...
... West in Salman Rushdie's " strong vellum " ( 1994 ) . Like the earth upon which it is supposed to exist , " this noble stuff , " the narrative explains , “ endures - if not forever , then at least till men consciously destroy it ...
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... West , of that which remains Western . We have to determine the extent to which our anti - Occidentalism is possibly one of the tricks directed against us , at the end of which it stands , motionless , waiting us " ( Ngate 1988 ; 11-12 ) ...
... West , of that which remains Western . We have to determine the extent to which our anti - Occidentalism is possibly one of the tricks directed against us , at the end of which it stands , motionless , waiting us " ( Ngate 1988 ; 11-12 ) ...
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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