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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... Woman's Body , Woman's Word cites the example in which the poet " al - Bahili recounts that he said to a black slave girl , ' Heat in you is greatest , ' to which she replied , ' He knows the heat of the bathhouse who has entered it ...
... Woman's Body , Woman's Word cites the example in which the poet " al - Bahili recounts that he said to a black slave girl , ' Heat in you is greatest , ' to which she replied , ' He knows the heat of the bathhouse who has entered it ...
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... woman sets herself up in sub / versive refiguration of an entire cluster of tropes , from the geo - political " Give me my robe , put on my crown " to the transcendent " I have immortal longings in me " ; and from the erotic ...
... woman sets herself up in sub / versive refiguration of an entire cluster of tropes , from the geo - political " Give me my robe , put on my crown " to the transcendent " I have immortal longings in me " ; and from the erotic ...
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... woman's face remember , Save , from my glass , mine own ; nor have I seen More that I may call men than you , good friend , And my dear father ; how features are abroad , I am skilless of . ( III.i.48-53 ) Miranda's conception of Woman ...
... woman's face remember , Save , from my glass , mine own ; nor have I seen More that I may call men than you , good friend , And my dear father ; how features are abroad , I am skilless of . ( III.i.48-53 ) Miranda's conception of Woman ...
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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