Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
Contents:
Nativism, nationalism, and the common man in American constructions of Shakespeare -- Shakespeare at Hull House: Jane Addams's "A Modern Lear" and the 1894 Pullman strike -- Shakespeare, 1916: Caliban by the yellow sands and the new dramas of democracy -- Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialist text and pretext -- After The Tempest: Shakespeare, postcoloniality, and Michelle Cliff's new New World Miranda -- Enslaving the moor: Othello, Oroonoko, and the recuperation of intractablity -- "Like Othello": Tayeb Salih's Season of migration and postcolonial self-fashioning -- Conclusion: Decolonizing Shakespeare: My son's story, Children of light, and late imperial romance.
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