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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... never be right ; and if we can never be right , it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong " ( 1995 : ix ) . Moreover , as things turn out , political violence and literary esoterica no less than ...
... never be right ; and if we can never be right , it is better that we should from time to time change our way of being wrong " ( 1995 : ix ) . Moreover , as things turn out , political violence and literary esoterica no less than ...
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... never quite become flesh " in the flesh of the one who [ was now ] sweaty and ailing , defeated in body , waiting for the Franciscan confessor to tell him everything , everything ... " ( 58 ) . All the while , though , such memories of ...
... never quite become flesh " in the flesh of the one who [ was now ] sweaty and ailing , defeated in body , waiting for the Franciscan confessor to tell him everything , everything ... " ( 58 ) . All the while , though , such memories of ...
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... never hidden in her sleeping clothes " -through and past " the barbed jungle's thickets " and " the ladder of the earth . " Yet another evidence of the numinous and the concrete , here , finally , “ was the habitation , this was the ...
... never hidden in her sleeping clothes " -through and past " the barbed jungle's thickets " and " the ladder of the earth . " Yet another evidence of the numinous and the concrete , here , finally , “ was the habitation , this was 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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