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Shakespearean Avatars : Modern African And South-East Asian Adaptations, Rebekah Bale
Shakespearean Avatars : Modern African And South-East Asian Adaptations, Rebekah Bale
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
My dissertation looks at adaptation of plays by Shakespeare in African and Asian contexts. It focuses on how and why certain writers from a post-colonial background use Shakespeare as a basis for their adaptation. I consider contemporary adaptations from the 1960s to the 1990s. My aim is to focus on adaptations that are distinctly indigenous in terms of place and time, but remain connected to an influential Shakespearean play. I focus on adaptations that were written during the post-colonial period in order to investigate how literary adaptations are mediated through politically diverse landscapes both in Africa and Asia.
A Transnational Postmodernism : North Africa As A Locus For Postmodern Fiction, Steven Weber
A Transnational Postmodernism : North Africa As A Locus For Postmodern Fiction, Steven Weber
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Examining a 25-year period of literature about post-WWII North Africa by Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Kateb Yacine, and Pierre Guyotat, A Transnational Postmodernism describes the creation of a particular kind of postmodern literature that has been shaped by the concerns of its colonial/postcolonial context. Such a shaping introduces postmodernity as a problem. This problem—astutely identified by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire—is that, at the moment of decolonization, as we move from modern to postmodern regimes of power and control, the typical elements of postmodernity (hybridity, et al) are no longer as necessarily liberatory as they once were against …