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> INTRODUCTION; Part 1 DEMOCRATIC VISTAS; Chapter 1 NATIVISM, NATIONALISM, AND THE COMMON MAN IN AMERICAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE; Chapter 2 SHAKESPEARE AT HULL HOUSE: JANE ADDAMS'S “A MODERN LEAR” AND THE 1894 PULLMAN STRIKE; Chapter 3 SHAKESPEARE, 1916: CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS AND THE NEW DRAMAS OF DEMOCRACY; Part 2 PROSPERO'S BOOKS; Chapter 4 PROSPERO IN AFRICA: THE TEMPEST AS COLONIALIST TEXT AND PRETEXT; Chapter 5 AFTER THE TEMPEST : SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND MICHELLE CLIFF'S NEW, NEW WORLD MIRANDA; Part 3 THE OTHELLO COMPLEX; Chapter 6 ENSLAVING THE MOOR: OTHELLO, OROONOKO, AND THE RECUPERATION OF INTRACTABILITY; Chapter 7 “LIKE OTHELLO”: TAYEB SALIH'S SEASON OF MIGRATION AND POSTCOLONIAL SELF-FASHIONING; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited INDEX;