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Book SynopsisEating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of interculturalism, otherness, hybridity and cultural (in)authenticity. Featuring scholarly essays as well as interviews and conversation pieces with creatives including Geraldo Carneiro, Fernando Yamamoto, Diana Henderson, Mark Thornton Burnett, Samir Bhamra, Tajpal Rathore, Samran Rathore and Paul Heritage it offers a timely and fruitful discourse between global Shakespearean theory and practice. The volume uniquely establishes and implements a conceptual model inspired by non-European thought, thereby confronting a central concern in the field of Global Shakespeare: the issue of Europe operating as a geographical and cultural centre' that still dominates the study of Shakespearean translations and adaptations from a periphery' of world-wide localities. With its origins in 20th-century Brazilian modernism, the concept of Cultural Anthropoph
Trade ReviewConsistently interesting and excellently articulated … Whether one is a Shakespeare scholar, a theatre practitioner, a creative writer, or simply an anthropology enthusiast, this book contains enough nutrients to sustain multiple explorations not only from the alleged ‘periphery’ of Global Shakespeares but also productions closer to home in the ‘centre’ of Shakespeare studies. * SKENÈ Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword, David Schalkwyk Anne Sophie Refskou, Marcel Amorim and Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho, Introduction
Dialogue I: Shakespeare and Cultural Anthropophagy in Practice Geraldo Carneiro and Vinicius de Carvalho, ‘We are all Cannibals: Reflections on Translating Shakespeare’ Víctor Huertas Martín, ‘Miguel Del Arco’s
Las Furias (2016): Cultural Anthropophagy as Adaptation Practice and as Metafiction’ ‘Devouring Shakespeare in North-Eastern Brazil’: Clowns de Shakespeare director Fernando Yamamoto in Conversation with Paulo da Silva Gregório Cristiane Busato Smith, ‘Cannibalizing
Hamlet in Brazil: Ophelia meets Oxum’
Dialogue II: Global Conversations and Intricate Intersections ‘De-centring Shakespeare, incorporating Otherness’: Diana Henderson in conversation with Koel Chatterjee Marcel Alvaro de Amorim, ‘Transconstructing Shakespeare’ ‘Past and Present Trajectories for Global Shakespeare’: Mark Thornton Burnett in Conversation with Anne Sophie Refskou
Dialogue III: Insiders and Outsiders Varsha Panjwani, ‘Tupi or not Tupi’: Conversations with Brasian Shakespeare Directors’ Anne Sophie Refskou, ‘”Not where he eats, but where he is eaten”: Rethinking Otherness in (British) Global Shakespeare’ Eleine Ng, Rojak Shakespeare, ‘Devouring the Self and Digesting Otherness on the Singaporean Stage’
Dialogue IV: Re-cultivating and Re-Disseminating Shakespeare Beyond the Institution Aimara Resende, ‘Engrafting Him New: Educating for Citizenship via Shakespeare in a Rural Area in Brazil’ ‘Cultural Anthropophagy and the De-institutionalization of Shakespeare’: Paul Heritage in conversation with Vinicius de Carvalho Afterword: Alfredo Michel Modenessi Notes References Index
