Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies articles from September 2006

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies archives from September 2006

Guest editors' introduction: postcolonial revisions of the early modern.
September 22, 2006... This special issue highlights the ongoing revision of early modern texts and contexts by contemporary novelists, playwrights, and filmmakers who may be termed "postcolonial." (1) Complicating early modern and postcolonial studies through a...

Dialogism between East and West: Halide Edib's Masks or Souls?(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT Halide Edib's Masks or Souls?: A Play in Five Acts begins with an unlikely cast of characters: William Shakespeare, Ibn Khaldun, Tamarlane, and Nassir-eddin Hoja. Although Nassir-eddin Hoja may be less well known on the world...

The tempest revisited in Martinique: Aime Cesaire's Shakespeare.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with how Aime Cesaire in Une tempete d'apres de Shakespeare proceeds along the colonizer/colonized lines of Shakespeare's composition. The difference between the two playwrights, however, is that...

"The ghosts of strangers": hospitality, identity and temporality in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This article investigates how Caryl Phillips retells Othello's story as a creative reappropriation of Shakespeare's play. In The Nature of Blood, Phillips's previous ironic stance toward Othello as "a black European success" turns...

Re-imagined histories: rewriting the early modern in Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This essay argues that Salman Rushdie's novel presents a re-imagined history of India through the palimpsest of the early modern antecedents of its Jewish-Catholic protagonists. Conceptually, a palimpsest refers to the erasure or...

Of cannibals and colonizers: irony, gender, and ecology in Rouge Bresil.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This essay develops a detailed reading of Jean-Christophe Rufin's Rouge Bresil, an historical novel recounting the failed sixteenth-century French colonial project in South America. This tale of religious war, of cultural...

Revising the vanquished: indigenous perspectives on colonial encounters.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This essay examines how and wily two works of postcolonial literature (Master of the Ghost Dreaming by the Aboriginal Australian writer Narogin Mudrooroo and Indigo: Mapping the Waters by the British writer Marina Warner) and two...