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Introduction. Shakespeare: Overlapping Mediascapes in the Mind
No full textIntroduction to the issue 'Shakespeare in the Media. Old and New', Anglistica aion, 15.2, 2011, co-edited with co-author Katherine Rowe, discussing the place of Shakespeare in the media today and the 'state of the art' of Shakespeare studies on the topic
Of Ghosts, Women and Slaves: Spectral Thinking in Late Modernity
No full textThe article investigates the spectral configurations of postcoloniality as they emerge in literature and critical thinking alike, and points to the political dimension of the spectralization of the real, the subject and culture
Inhospitable Shakespeare
No full textThe article discusses Shakespeare – in whose plays a Derridean ‘hospitality’ is sometimes present at different levels – as the ghost/host/guest of critical practice, and addresses the question – here formulated as a question of hospitality – of what Shakespeare can do for a postcolonial reading practice today
Nation, Belonging and Méconnaissance in Pauline Melville’s The Migration of Ghosts
No full textThe article offers a reading of the short story by Pauline Melville and identifies an unusual, haunted and haunting sense of belonging in the text
The Senses of Names: Shakespeare and Early Modern Rhetorics and Culture
No full textMichel de Montaigne distrusted what John Florio translated as “the vanitie of words”; Henry Peacham, on the other hand, perceived “the nigh and necessary conjunction” of eloquence and wisdom, “the only ornaments whereby a man’s life is beautified”. In their different views, the two writers equally deemed words to be changing ‘subjects’, ready, we may say, to respond to the Biblical command to “increase and multiply”.
Against the vagaries and excesses of words, names, especially proper names, would allegedly be the champions of fixity and identity within language. But how strong is their vocation to monumentalize? Or even to establish and guarantee filiation? What are the imports (textual, cultural) of an unkept promise to define, if names fail to do so? How many ‘senses’ (meanings, referents and trajectories) are there in a name? With respect to the early modern culture, how does the difference of literature intersect the political dimensions of the name, the appellation, the appellative? In _The Tempest_ Shakespeare invented an unnamed island; what can we make of the extreme case of the absence of the name? The paper aims to address these and other questions through a discussion of examples drawn from Shakespeare's plays
Techne, the Visual Arts and Literary Genres: Fractal Epic of the Twenty-first Century
No full textEven as genres are established, the question of genre is almost necessarily assessed as one of fluidity, or even of corruption and contamination (Derrida). Possibly, the twenty-first-century critical contribution to the discussion of literary genres lies in the way the fluidity is understood. Technology plays a major part in the creation as well as fruition of literary and artistic works in the present, and thanks to it planes that were imagined as distant become contiguous. The starting point for my reflection is therefore: what happens to genres when they migrate from the literary space to other media? How is poetics affected by techne?
I propose that we continue asking ‘literary’ questions in our analyses of texts, even of visual texts, especially when they overtly engage with the literary space. In particular, I explore the way the classical genre of the epic returns in the digital visual arts, and assess its reinvention and actuality in two contemporary film essays by London-based artist John Akomfrah, The Nine Muses (2010) and Vertigo Sea (2015)
Cinema Is a Video Clip on the Internet. Liz Tabish, A Cinematic Translation of Shakespearean Tragedies
No full textAn analysis of Liz Tabish's series of six short films adapting Shakespeare's tragedie
Shakespeare and Literary Africa: Encounters by Dissonance in Coetzee, Soyinka, Gordimer
No full textWhat are we to make of Shakespeare’s unexpected presence in texts which originate in traumatic events, individual and collective, in present Africa, yet do not deal with Africa in any direct or explicit way? The article offers a reflection on the emergence of Shakespeare in three texts by contemporary authors from Africa (Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee). It explores the modalities of apparition of Shakespeare (none of the texts being a ‘rewriting’ proper) and addresses the question of how to read literary allusion in relation to the 'literary Africa' emerging in the texts
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