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South Africa's Shakespeare and the drama of language and identity

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	South Africa's Shakespeare and the drama of language and identity/ by Adele Seeff.
Author:	Seeff, Adele.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	xiii, 241 p. :digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78148-8
ISBN:	9783319781488

South Africa's Shakespeare and the drama of language and identity
Seeff, Adele.

South Africa's Shakespeare and the drama of language and identity[electronic resource] /by Adele Seeff. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xiii, 241 p. :digital ;24 cm. - Global shakespeares. - Global shakespeares..

1. Introduction -- 2. The African Theatre, Cape Town, 1801 -- 3. The Shakespeare Diaspora -- 4. Andre Brink's Kinkels innie Kabel: Political Vision and Linguistic Virtuosity -- 5. John Kani as Othello at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg -- 6. Shakespeare in Mzansi -- 7. Afterword.

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity. A case study approach demonstrates how Shakespeare's texts are available for ideologically driven linguistic programs. Seeff introduces the African Theatre, Cape Town, in 1801, multilingual site of the first recorded performance of a Shakespeare play in Southern Africa where rival, amateur theatrical groups performed in turn, in English, Dutch, German, and French. Chapter 3 offers three vectors of a broadening Shakespeare diaspora in English, Afrikaans, and Setswana in the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 4 analyses Andre Brink's Kinkels innie Kabel, a transposition of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors into Kaaps, as a radical critique of apartheid's obsession with linguistic and ethnic purity. Chapter 5 investigates John Kani's performance of Othello as a Xhosa warrior chief with access to the ancient tradition of Xhosa storytellers. Shakespeare in Mzansi, a televisual miniseries uses black actors, vernacular languages, and local settings to Africanize Macbeth and reclaim a cross-cultural, multilingualism. An Afterword assesses the future of Shakespeare in a post-rainbow, decolonizing South Africa. Global Sha Any reader interested in Shakespeare Studies, global Shakespeare, Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare and appropriation, Shakespeare and language, Literacy Studies, race, and South African cultural history will be drawn to this book.

ISBN: 9783319781488

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-78148-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Shakespeare, William,
1564-1616--Literary style.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature.

LC Class. No.: PR2971.S6

Dewey Class. No.: 822.33

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