Import/Export: Trafficking in Cross-Cultural Shakespearean Spaces

• Authors: Christy Desmet
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay examines the phenomenon of cross-cultural Shakespearean “traffic” as an import/export “business” by analyzing the usefulness of the concept crosscultural through a series of theoretical binaries: Global vs. Local Shakespeares, Glocal and Intercultural Shakespeare; and the very definition of space and place within the Shakespearean lexicon. The essay argues that theoretically, the opposition of global and local Shakespeares has a tendency to collapse, and both glocal and intercultural Shakespeares are the object of serious critique. However, the project of cross-cultural Shakespeare is sustained by the dialectic between memorialization and forgetting that attends all attempts to record these cross-cultural experiences. The meaning of crosscultural Shakespeare lies in the interpreter’s agency.

Keywords

EN

Global Shakespeare; Local Shakespeare; Intercultural Shakespeare; Glocal Shakespeare; Dobson; Michael; Wilson; Robert Kennedy; Barucha; Rustom; Massai; Sonia; Isango Ensemble; Globe to Globe Hamlet; Laura Bohannon; “Shakespeare in the Bush”; Orkin; Martin

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 15-26

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Christy Desmet

• University of Georgia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/mstap-2017-0002