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Shakespeare's cross-cultural encounters

Title: Shakespeare's cross-cultural encounters / Geraldo U. de Sousa.
Author: Sousa, Geraldo U. de, 1952-
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Description

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Writing in an accessible, compelling style, de Sousa argues that when cultures that define themselves as ideological opposites meet, they intermingle in a process of negotiation and identity exchanges. Placing the drama in a historical and cultural context, he examines a variety of topics, including a clash of gender systems; text as a repository of a culture's values, beliefs, prejudices, and practices; erasure of memory and appropriation of identity; the interplay of ecology, culture, and race; and the dual process of cultural estrangement and reintegration. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, de Sousa relies on original archival research and draws on feminist and gender studies, ecology, history, and anthropology. In the process he recovers a wealth of information on race and gender relations in early modern Europe."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.

Contents

'The Uttermost Parts of Their Maps': Frontiers of Gender -- Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and the Instability of Gender -- Textual Encodings in The Merchant of Venice -- Textual Intersections: Titus Andronicus and Othello -- Habitat, Race, and Culture in Antony and Cleopatra -- Cultural Re-encounters in The Tempest.

ISBN

0312217218
9780312217211
0333740165
9780333740163
0333949471
9780333949474

LCCN

98034140

OCLC

ocm39538989
39538989
SCSB-14652469

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library