Repositioning Shakespeare

<p><em>Repositioning Shakespeare</em> offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era Thomas Cartelli considers:<br> * essays by Walt Whitman<br> * the nineteenth-century play 'Jack Cade'<br> * novels by Aphra Behn Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Michelle Cliff Tayeb Salih Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone<br> * the 1849 Astor Place Riot<br> Cartelli places particular emphasis on redefining the 'postcolonial' in order to find a place for America. In doing so <em>Repositioning Shakespeare</em> makes a considerable contribution to the continuing debate about the uses we make of Shakespeare.</p>