Bastardizing The Bard: Appropriations Of Shakespeare’s Plays In Post-colonial India
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- Synopsis
- I have found that Indian productions and interpretation of Shakespeare engage in such mimicry, simultaneously asserting and disrupting colonial authority. Infusing the English texts with Indian concerns both challenges colonial authority and articulates post¬colonial realities. Indian appropriations of Shakespeare's drama are not new, post-colonial phenomena. During the colonial period, the plays were often used to explore cultural and political tensions. Today, Shakespeare's plays serve as vehicles to investigate the realities of post-colonial existence. Shakespeare productions, particularly those staged in English, best represent the multiple, ambiguous, hybrid, and hyphenated realities and identities of post- 1947 India. The cross-culturation that marks this growing genre situates Western, canonical texts within the dual institutions of Indian theater and literary criticism. Shakespeare has, in effect, become an Indian commodity.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- UMI A Bell & Howell Information Company
- Date of Addition:
- 09/19/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Kapadia, Parmlta
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- Yes
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Textbooks, Education
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.