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 126
... native behavior . Chatterjee's study of theater in the Bengali Renaissance thus identifies a nicely conjunctive moment in the first quarter of the nineteenth century , when " Bengali newspapers started voicing the need for native ...
... native behavior . Chatterjee's study of theater in the Bengali Renaissance thus identifies a nicely conjunctive moment in the first quarter of the nineteenth century , when " Bengali newspapers started voicing the need for native ...
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... native populations , " to which is added an “ insistence , half - mystagogic , half- propagandist , on the temperate , fruitful nature of the New World " ( Kermode 1986 : xxxi ) . But then , Purchas is also grounded in the “ natural ...
... native populations , " to which is added an “ insistence , half - mystagogic , half- propagandist , on the temperate , fruitful nature of the New World " ( Kermode 1986 : xxxi ) . But then , Purchas is also grounded in the “ natural ...
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... native on whom " any print of goodness [ will ] not take . " With its " mythic " and " simplifying crucible " ( Hulme 1986 : 186 ) , Prospero's representation of native speech and cognition rather quickly resolves the kind of crisis ...
... native on whom " any print of goodness [ will ] not take . " With its " mythic " and " simplifying crucible " ( Hulme 1986 : 186 ) , Prospero's representation of native speech and cognition rather quickly resolves the kind of crisis ...
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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