South Africa, Shakespeare, and Post-colonial CultureEdwin Mellen Press, 2005 - 301 страници This book works within the frameworks of post-colonial studies and cultural studies in order to theorise, and then to illustrate, the possibilities for cultural creation in the context of oppression. It re-works the concept of hybridity, and the philosophies of liberalism and humanism, in order to suggest that these important and much-contested terrains within critical theory have specific potential in a South African context. This book applies these theoretical points to a specific trajectory of writing in English in the region, which it finds embodied in the writing of Solomon Plaatje, Peter Abrahams, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, and Can Themba. By seeking to unlock the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which Shakespeare is useful to these writers, the book addresses the traditional imbalance of knowledges in Shakespeare Studies by conceptualizing the presence of Shakespeare in these texts as indicative of an act of cultural appropriation and political resistance. Ultimately, the book makes a contribution to post-colonial and cultural studies' engagements with how culture works, how resistance is inscribed, and what role theory can play in the neo-colonial world. |
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... specific , relying on access to resources and to a certain ( however limited ) mobility and flexibility which privileges those constructed as hybrid . Hybridity , in other words , cannot be easily celebrated as an identity available to ...
... specific , relying on access to resources and to a certain ( however limited ) mobility and flexibility which privileges those constructed as hybrid . Hybridity , in other words , cannot be easily celebrated as an identity available to ...
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... specific " hybridity " might need to be gender- , and ( following Loomba ) , where appropriate , caste- specific as well . This is not to suggest that such a notion of hybridity , expressed in a South African literary discourse by men ...
... specific " hybridity " might need to be gender- , and ( following Loomba ) , where appropriate , caste- specific as well . This is not to suggest that such a notion of hybridity , expressed in a South African literary discourse by men ...
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... specific , and the other universal : " the master of the English language " and " the great creator of human characters and eternal situations " ( 1967 : 108 ) . The eliding of terms such as " the English language ” , and universal ...
... specific , and the other universal : " the master of the English language " and " the great creator of human characters and eternal situations " ( 1967 : 108 ) . The eliding of terms such as " the English language ” , and universal ...
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Shakespeare and the Essentially Human | 52 |
South African Shakespeare Tracing | 77 |
Drums Shakespeare | 152 |
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