A postcolonial reading of colonial strategies in Shakespeare's plays
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cleopas Thosago (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 194-212 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719808530195 |
| OpenAlex | W1985763709 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper aims at highlighting the postcolonial features inherent in some of Shakespeare's plays by adopting what Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin call “symptomatic reading” in their seminal work on postcolonial discourse, The Empire Writes Back (1989). Instead of concentrating on the metaphoric meaning of the texts, an interpretation of Shakespearean plays will be suggested which reveals not only the colonial ideologies and other discursive formations that the plays contain, but also the post‐colonial strategies which, though at times implicit, feature prominently in these texts
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Colonialism · Empire · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
The intimate enemy
Prospero and Caliban
The intimate enemy
The imperial unconscious? Representations of imperial discourse
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
Misrepresentations
Colonialism, Racism and Representation
Prospero's Magic
Manichean Aesthetics
First Images of America
Culture and Imperialism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |