Shakespearean Intertexts and European Identities in Contemporary Black British Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofía Muñoz-Valdivieso (Universidad de Málaga, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-469 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Changing English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1358-684X • E-ISSN: 1469-3585 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1358684x.2012.736746 |
| OpenAlex | W2021675981 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
The article analyses the presence of William Shakespeare as intertext in three recent novels by black British writers which deploy the work of the Bard as they explore British and European identities. Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood recreates an Othello-like figure who in early Modern Venice struggles to come to terms with his identity as an outsider. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth summarises the influence of imperial history in contemporary English society with The Tempest’s idea that ‘What is past is prologue’ and evokes an African presence in Shakespeare’s England by way of the dark lady in sonnets. Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists presents a journey through European countries that are haunted by the ghosts of old African inhabitants, among them the dark lady of the sonnets. These novels use their dialogue with William Shakespeare to construct stories of Africans in Europe in the past centuries that question received narratives of the British nation and undermine the myth of an all-white Europe
Aesthetics · Art · Black British · British literature · English literature · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Poetry · Prologue · Sociology · Sonnet · Tempest · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Staying power
The Oxford Shakespeare
The Tempest in an English Teapot
Black History - White History
The politics of everyday hybridity
Extra dimensions, new routines
Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677
Postmodern blackness and unbelonging in the works of Caryl Phillips
To remember too much is indeed a form of madness
The souls of black folks
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |