By Shormishtha Panja,Babli Moitra Saraf
ISBN-10: 9351509745
ISBN-13: 9789351509745
An edition of Shakespeare’s performs as a foundation of serious exploration of identification formation in India.
Even whereas a awake dismantling of colonization was once occurring because the nineteenth century, the Indian literati, intellectuals, students and dramaturges have been engaged in deconstructing the last word icon of colonial presence—Shakespeare. This publication delves into what constitutes Indianness within the postcolonial context by way of having a look into the textual content and sub-text of the Bard of Avon’s performs tailored in visible tradition, translation, degree functionality and cinema.
The publication is a vital intervention within the ongoing explorations in social and cultural heritage, because it explores how Shakespeare has impacted the emergence of local identities round questions of language and linguistic empowerment in a number of methods. It unearths a rare negotiation of colonial and postcolonial id issues—be it in language, in social and cultural practices or in artwork forms.
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