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Overview
Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the “rewriting” of Shakespeare’s play serves as an interpretive grid through which to read three movements—postcoloniality, postpatriarchy, and postmodernism—via the Tempest characters of Caliban, Miranda/Sycorax and Prospero, as they vie for the ownership of meaning at the end of the twentieth century. Covering texts in three languages, from four continents and in the last four decades, this study imaginatively explores the collapse of empire and the emergence of independent nation-states; the advent of feminism and other sexual liberation movements that challenged patriarchy; and the varied critiques of representation that make up the “postmodern condition.”
Synopsis
In this study, Zabus (affiliation not cited) examines various rewrites of The Tempest from 1960 to 2000, including those by writers from Australia, Britain, Canada, the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the United States. The volume is organized into three sections, which focus in turn upon the ways in which Shakespeare's text has shaped the postcolonial, postfeminist, and postmodernist movements. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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In this study, Zabus (affiliation not cited) examines various rewrites of from 1960 to 2000, including those by writers from Australia, Britain, Canada, the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and the United States. The volume is organized into three sections, which focus in turn upon the ways in which Shakespeare's text has shaped the postcolonial, postfeminist, and postmodernist movements. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)