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Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World

By Jonathan Hart

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
9780312296155, 9781403973573, 0312296150
LCC
PR3014 .H37 2003
Open Library ID
OL22576859M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1048580 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
248\246
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World explores a range of images and texts that shed light on the complexity of the European reception and interpretation of the New World. Jonathan Hart examines Columbus's first representation of the natives and the New World, the representation of him in subsequent ages, the portrayal of America in sexual terms, the cultural intricacies brought into play by a variety of translators and mediators, the tensions between the aesthetic and colonial in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a discussion of cultural and voice appropriation that examines the colonial in the postcolonial. This book brings the comparative study of the cultural past of the Americas and the Atlantic world into focus as it relates to the present.

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