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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... course , weighed down by the " accidental burden ” and “ accidental course " that his embrace of awkward affiliations required . That being the case , we could later sense , perhaps we did recognize , a bemused high - colonialist or ...
... course , weighed down by the " accidental burden ” and “ accidental course " that his embrace of awkward affiliations required . That being the case , we could later sense , perhaps we did recognize , a bemused high - colonialist or ...
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... course counted on just such a voyeuristic disrelish when he went public in Venice : " Call up her father , / Rouse him , " he had urged . " Make after him , poison his delight , / Proclaim him in the streets , incense her kinsmen ...
... course counted on just such a voyeuristic disrelish when he went public in Venice : " Call up her father , / Rouse him , " he had urged . " Make after him , poison his delight , / Proclaim him in the streets , incense her kinsmen ...
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... course , for once again , sheer inauthenticity defines the boundaries of what Naipaul sees . For which reason , The Return of Eva Peron insists , to be an " Argentine is to be inhabit a magical , debilitating world , " one in which ...
... course , for once again , sheer inauthenticity defines the boundaries of what Naipaul sees . For which reason , The Return of Eva Peron insists , to be an " Argentine is to be inhabit a magical , debilitating world , " one in which ...
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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