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 178
... narrative's apparent move into unambiguous empathy . There are limits , after all , to such a move , and to the ... narrative embraces here - from colonial governor - general's plumed hat to native woman invaded as though from overseas ...
... narrative's apparent move into unambiguous empathy . There are limits , after all , to such a move , and to the ... narrative embraces here - from colonial governor - general's plumed hat to native woman invaded as though from overseas ...
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... narrative , after all , in which " grapevine tracery " and " encrusted monstrances ” converge in the shape of some " main - altar painting of a fabulous Jerusalem " ( ibid . ) , and on terrain that is as much a " nostalgia [ for ] ...
... narrative , after all , in which " grapevine tracery " and " encrusted monstrances ” converge in the shape of some " main - altar painting of a fabulous Jerusalem " ( ibid . ) , and on terrain that is as much a " nostalgia [ for ] ...
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... narrative's " El Supremo " or " Patriarch " reaches symbolic conclusion in what he had been looking for ; it is significant that he does so after having gone from " bone sewing needles to the ritual masks of the New Hebrides , from ...
... narrative's " El Supremo " or " Patriarch " reaches symbolic conclusion in what he had been looking for ; it is significant that he does so after having gone from " bone sewing needles to the ritual masks of the New Hebrides , from ...
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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