Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule. Arguing for the 'Post'Colonies as a distinct category within Global Shakespeares, this volume explores the reality of 21st-century Shakespeares in geographies of post-colonial and postcolonial inheritance, such as continental Africa, Australasia, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and the Americas. As former colonies in Asia and Africa cross fifty and even seventy years of political independence, contributors re-examine the presence of Shakespeare in marginalised or politically disenfranchised communities, interrogating how Shakespeare intersects with the internal and global power dynamics of post-independence nations.
The essays cover a rich array of genres ranging from theatrical performances, translations, and cinematic adaptations to classroom strategies. They turn to texts that have often gone ignored and give voice to Shakespeare appropriations by subaltern groups. Essays address questions of race, gender, nationality, indigeneity, caste and class, shedding new light on the diverse range of contemporary Shakespeare engagements across the global 'Post'Colonies.
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This collection is a study of what Shakespeare means in former or still colonial geographies and how the various 21st-century Shakespeares impact questions of migrant and indigenous rights, colonial and marginalised identities, and race, class, and caste politics in 'post'-colonial spaces.
Foreword - Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University, USA) and Poonam Trivedi (Delhi University, India)
Introduction: Shakespeare in the 'Post' Colonies: What's Shakespeare to Them, or They to Shakespeare - Amrita Dhar (Ohio State University, USA) and Amrita Sen (University of Calcutta, India)
1. In States Unborn and Accents Yet Unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous Performance - Margaret Harvey and David McInnis (both University of Melbourne, Australia)
2. Reincarnating Barbary: Translating Intersections of Race and Gender in Desdemona and Wesoo Hamlet - Ifeoluwa Aboluwade (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
3. Who's the Hegemon Here?: Shakespeare and Complicated Post-Colonialities in the Arabian Peninsula - Katherine Hennessey (American University of Kuwait, Kuwait)
4. The Fatal Attraction of Empress Americana: Yamanote Jijosha's Titus Andronicus as a Postcolonial Allegory - Bi-qi Beatrice Lei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
5. Shakespeare and the Politics of Adaptation in (Post)Colonial Philippines - Kirsten N. Mendoza (University of Dayton, USA)
6. Dalit Shakespeares - Vijeta Kumar (St. Joseph's College, India)
7. Nuestros Arieles: Negotiating Latin American identity through Ariel - Ana Weinberg (De Montfort University, UK)
8. Racial Passing and the Post-9/11 Military Industrial Complex in Iqbal Khan's Othello - Zainab Cheema (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA)
9. Whose Side Are You On? Settler Colonial Shakespeare and Indigenous Resistance - Madeline Sayet (Arizona State University, USA)
Afterword - Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)
Notes
Index
Amrita Dhar is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, USA.
Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, India. She has co-edited Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (2020), and a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on 'Alternative Histories of the East India Company' (2017).
