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Shakespeare and the Coconuts : on post-apartheid South African culture / Natasha Distiller.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2012Description: x, 245 pISBN:
  • 9781868145614
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822.33 23
  • 822.33 23/swe
Contents:
Chapter 1 Shakespeare in English, English in South Africa 19 -- Chapter 2 'Through Shakespeare's Africa': 'Terror and murder'? 49 --?Chapter 3 Tony's Will: Titus Andronicus in South Africa, 1995 71 -- Chapter 4 Begging the questions: Producing Shakespeare for post-apartheid South African schools 97 --?Chapter 5 English and the African Renaissance 125 -- Chapter 6 Shakespeare and the coconuts 143.
Summary: "In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author looks at the development of an elite group educated in English and able to use Shakespeare to formulate South African works and South African identities. Refusing simple or easy answers, Distiller then explores the South African Shakespearian tradition post-apartheid. ... Shakespeare and the Coconuts engages with aspects of South Africa's complicated, painful, fascinating political and cultural worlds, and their intersections."--Back cover.
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Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 822.33 Distiller Available 6004300065620
Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 822.33 Distiller Available 6004300065621
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Chapter 1 Shakespeare in English, English in South Africa 19 -- Chapter 2 'Through Shakespeare's Africa': 'Terror and murder'? 49 --?Chapter 3 Tony's Will: Titus Andronicus in South Africa, 1995 71 -- Chapter 4 Begging the questions: Producing Shakespeare for post-apartheid South African schools 97 --?Chapter 5 English and the African Renaissance 125 -- Chapter 6 Shakespeare and the coconuts 143.

"In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author looks at the development of an elite group educated in English and able to use Shakespeare to formulate South African works and South African identities. Refusing simple or easy answers, Distiller then explores the South African Shakespearian tradition post-apartheid. ... Shakespeare and the Coconuts engages with aspects of South Africa's complicated, painful, fascinating political and cultural worlds, and their intersections."--Back cover.

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