Performing Shakespeare in India: Exploring Indianness, Literatures and Cultures - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 9351509745 ISBN 13: 9789351509745

Verlag: SAGE, 2016

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Críticas:

The essays are written in an academic standpoint and reveal many philosophical arguments to showcase the reach of Shakespeare and the methods to adapt it.

(Free Press Journal, 5 March 2017)

Reseña del editor:

An adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays as a basis of critical exploration of identity formation in India.

Even while a conscious dismantling of colonization was happening since the 19th century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, scholars and dramaturges were engaged in deconstructing the ultimate icon of colonial presence—Shakespeare. This book delves into what constitutes Indianness in the postcolonial context by looking into the text and sub-text of the Bard of Avon’s plays adapted in visual culture, translation, stage performance and cinema.

The book is an important intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, as it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of regional identities around questions of language and linguistic empowerment in various ways. It reveals an extraordinary negotiation of colonial and postcolonial identity issues—be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in art forms. 

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• Verlag: SAGE
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9351509745
• ISBN 13: 9789351509745
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282