| Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Hart, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312296150 ISBN-13: 9780312296155 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: "Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World" explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's "The Tempest," and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Shakespeare - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 822.33 |
| LCCN: 2002074937 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.98" W x 9.04" (1.08 lbs) 231 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present. |