Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism
Title | Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Manojit Mandal |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-08 |
Genre | Indic literature |
ISBN | 9781032379234 |
"Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19thc Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism, this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Bengal-Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838-1903), Girishchandra Ghosh (1844-1912), Purnachandra Basu (1844-unknown), Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891), Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya (1838-1894) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony and cultural politics, this interdisciplinary approach combines post-colonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of a national admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside a fierce resistance to British rule"--
Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism
Title | Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Manojit Mandal |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2023-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000963098 |
Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism, this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838–1903), Girishchandra Ghosh (1844–1912), Purnachandra Basu (1844–unknown), Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891), Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya(1838–1894), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and a host of prominent writers of cultural politics, nationalism and Indian history, this interdisciplinary approach combines postcolonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of an unbridled admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside the rise of nationalism and a fierce resistance to British rule. The book, finally, moves to re-explore Shakespeare's position in academic, political and popular nationalist discourses in postcolonial India.
Shakespeare's King Lear and Indian Politics
Title | Shakespeare's King Lear and Indian Politics PDF eBook |
Author | William Miller |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Shakespeare and National Culture
Title | Shakespeare and National Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Joughin |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | 9780719050510 |
Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.
Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas
Title | Shakespeare and Indian Cinemas PDF eBook |
Author | Poonam Trivedi |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317367006 |
This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better known Tamil and Kannada, as well as the less familiar regions of the North Eastern states. The volume visits diverse filmic genres, starting from the earliest silent cinema, to diasporic films made for global audiences, television films, independent films, and documentaries, thus expanding the very notion of ‘Indian cinema’ while also looking at the different modalities of deploying Shakespeare specific to these genres. Shakespeareans and film scholars provide an alternative history of the development of Indian cinemas through its negotiations with Shakespeare focusing on the inter-textualities between Shakespearean theatre, regional cinema, performative traditions, and literary histories in India. The purpose is not to catalog examples of Shakespearean influence but to analyze the interplay of the aesthetic, historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts in which Indian language films have turned to Shakespeare and to what purpose. The discussion extends from the content of the plays to the modes of their cinematic and intermedial translations. It thus tracks the intra–Indian flows and cross-currents between the various film industries, and intervenes in the politics of multiculturalism and inter/intraculturalism built up around Shakespearean appropriations. Contributing to current studies in global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way Shakespeare on screen is predominantly theorized, as well as how Indian cinema, particularly ‘Shakespeare in Indian cinema’ is understood.
Performing Shakespeare in India
Title | Performing Shakespeare in India PDF eBook |
Author | Shormishtha Panja |
Publisher | SAGE Publishing India |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2016-07-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9351509753 |
· This collection is unusual in that the essays are not written from a single perspective and instead cover aspects as diverse as socio-political issues, translation, performance, language and identity, literary analysis. · The style of all the essays is jargon-free and accessible to the lay reader. · Given the fact that the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death comes up in 2016, this collection would be in the nature of both a retrospective appraisal as well as an anticipatory homage. · Its approaches are multi-disciplinary - from socio-historical analysis, to political commentary, translation studies, literary criticism and performance studies. · It will interest researchers interested in translation studies and performance studies, and literary critics.
Shakespeare and Indian Theatre
Title | Shakespeare and Indian Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Vikram Singh Thakur |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-12-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9389812658 |
This book looks at adaptations, translations and performance of Shakespeare's productions in India from the mid-18th century, when British officers in India staged Shakespeare's plays along with other English playwrights for entertainment, through various Indian adaptations of his plays during the colonial period to post-Independence period. It studies Shakespeare in Bengali and Parsi theatre at length. Other theatre traditions, such as Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi, have been included. The book dwells on the fascinating story of the languages of India that have absorbed Shakespeare's work and have transformed the original educated Indian's Shakespeare into the popular Shakespeare practice of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the unique urban-folkish tradition in postcolonial India.