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Book SynopsisJyotsna G. Singh is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and Postcolonial Studies at Michigan State University, USA.
Trade ReviewAn excellent, thoroughly researched book that breaks new ground pushing the field of postcolonial Shakespeare studies in a promising direction … This text provides richly detailed, in-depth analysis of specific productions and the key critical influences of seminal scholarly works … Highly engaging. * Renaissance Quarterly *
Reminds readers of the stakes of a postcolonial lens in contemporary engagements with Shakespeare in scholarship, performance and pedagogy. * Shakespeare in Southern Africa *
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Series Editor’s Preface Introduction: ‘An Inventory of Traces’ PART I – SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY COLONIAL HISTORY Chapter One: Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imaginary Chapter Two: Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare’s World and Productions of Difference PART II – SHAKESPEARE, DECOLONIZATION, POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Chapter Three: Past and Present: Shakespeare–Postcoloniality Chapter Four: Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and Difference PART III – SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND RECEPTION HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE AND FILM Chapter Five: Global, Intercultural Shakespeares Chapter Six: Boundary-Crossings on the British Shakespearean Stage Chapter Seven: Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet: Reconstituting the Cultural Ruins of Kashmir Notes References Index
