Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory

Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and Postcolonial Studies at Michigan State University, USA.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: ‘An Inventory of Traces’PART I – SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY COLONIAL HISTORYChapter One: Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial ImaginaryChapter Two: Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare’s World and Productions of Difference PART II – SHAKESPEARE, DECOLONIZATION, POSTCOLONIAL THEORYChapter Three: Past and Present: Shakespeare–Postcoloniality Chapter Four: Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and DifferencePART III – SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND RECEPTION HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE AND FILMChapter Five: Global, Intercultural ShakespearesChapter Six: Boundary-Crossings on the British Shakespearean StageChapter Seven: Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet: Reconstituting the Cultural Ruins of KashmirNotesReferencesIndex

An excellent, thoroughly researched book that breaks new ground pushing the field of postcolonial Shakespeare studies in a promising direction … This text provides richly detailed, in-depth analysis of specific productions and the key critical influences of seminal scholarly works … Highly engaging.