Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies

Legacies, Cultures and Social Justice

Amrita Dhar, Amrita Sen, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, David Schalkwyk, Silvia Bigliazzi

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781350344150
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Global Shakespeare Inverted
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Foreword: Postcolonial Reciprocities
• Foreword: Travelling with Global Shakespeares into the Future
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 In states unborn and accents yet unknown: Shakespeare and Australian Indigenous performance
• 2 Reincarnating Barbary: Translating intersections of race and gender in Desdemona and Wèsóo, Hamlet!
• 3 Hyperion to a satyr? Shakespeare and post-colonial nostalgia in Aden
• 4 The fatal attraction of Empress Americana: Titus Andronicus as Japan’s postcolonial allegory
• 5 ‘I am born to tame you, Kate’: Irreverent submission in a postcolonial Filipino Taming of the Shrew (2002)
• 6 ‘We have also studied him’: Shakespeare and the Dalit reader
• 7 Nationbuilding through Shakespeare: Ariel in Latin America
• 8 Post-9/11 Othello: Representing the global post-colony in Iqbal Khan’s 2015 RSC production
• 9 Whose side are you on? Settler colonial Shakespeare and Indigenous resistance
• Are we post-colonial yet? Shakespeare and the ‘post’colonies
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright Page