scholarly journals Postcolonial Resistance of Western Imperialist Ideology: Constructing Identities of Others as Violent Savages

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menia Mohammad Almenia
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
Binary Division

This paper examines how hegemonic discourse, or the ideology of a dominant society has essentialized, fixed, and divided identities through the construction of binary division of Western’s ideology as civilized and Others as savages. The development of postcolonial theory will be introduced with special consideration to Said’s (1995) theory of Orientalism and Spivak’s (1988) concept of “silencing the Others.” Sample Western literary texts will show a concerted expression of colonial ideology supporting the concept of binary divisions. These will include The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1990), Robinson Crouse by Daniel Defoe (1899), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (2001), and Passage to India by E. M. Foster (1985). In contrast, literary works by minority authors, mainly postcolonialists, will be examined and considered according to how effectively they resist Western imperialist ideology.

scholarly journals La reescritura como herramienta de respuesta literaria

La Palabra ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Daniela Buksdorf
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Palabras Clave

En este artículo se presenta la reescritura como un ejercicio de respuesta y/o reivindicación, a partir del estudio y análisis de dos reescrituras - Una tempestad, de Aimé Césaire y Ancho mar de los Sargazos, de Jean Rhys- que tienen como hipotexto obras canónicas cuyo origen se encuentra en el Imperio Inglés. Césaire toma como texto de origen La tempestad de William Shakespeare, mientras que Rhys trabaja desde la novela victoriana Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë. El objetivo de este artículo es identificar las respuestas a dichas obras canónicas, modificando el discurso presente en los escritos estudiados. Para esto, se revisarán los conceptos de canon y reescritura, se analizarán los textos reescritos desde su base canónica y se compararán ejes centrales de las novelas y tratamiento de personajes y contexto, para así detectar las cercanías y lejanías de las obras con los textos canónicos y poder identificar los discursos perseguidos por los autores de las reescrituras. Palabras clave: reescritura, canon, hegemonía, margen, Shakespeare, Césaire, Brontë, Rhys.

scholarly journals “The Very Highest Level of Mythic Resonance.” Angela Carter and the Trope of Recognition

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Dominika Oramus
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Angela Carter ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Cultural Importance ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Definition Of

This essay aims at adding to the critical debate on Angela Carter and myths from a more technical perspective and discusses her keen interest in the “lo and behold” moment of recognition. I claim that for Carter myths “work” in literary texts by producing a sudden illumination. At that moment, an image reveals itself to be interposed from an older story that has, or used to have, some cultural importance. In order to describe this phenomenon, I am going to refer to Aristotle’s definition of recognition in his Poetics and essays of C.G. Jung, for whom myths are instances of revelation. To prove that Carter was very much interested in the technicalities of recognition, I analyse her non-fiction devoted to Edgar Allan Poe and Charlotte Brontë. Carter’s sample mythic reading of Jane Eyre (1847) and her plans to re-write the last chapter of this novel provide me with enough material to risk a hypothesis regarding how, in her opinion, myths might intertextually enrich the reading experience.

scholarly journals Quem conta minha história? As mutilações do cânone e a construção do Outro em Foe, de J. M. Coetzee

Em Tese ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Jivago Araújo Holanda Ribeiro Gonçalves ◽  
Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
The Tempest

Tomando a narrativa literária como campo fecundo para revisitação de obras já canonizadas, Foe, escrito em 1986 por J. M. Coetzee, se inscreve em um amplo debate acerca da representatividade dos sujeitos em situações subalternizadas e suas possibilidades de expressão, via texto literário, que se inicia a partir dos anos 1960 com o recrudescimento dos estudos pós-coloniais. A obra em questão reconfigura as relações entre personagens outrora representados na tradição da literatura inglesa, a saber, o colonizador branco e o escravizado negro. O texto é uma releitura direta de The tempest (1611), de William Shakespeare e Robinson Crusoé (1719), de Daniel Defoe. Interessa pensar em que medida se efetua na obra uma reconfiguração dos posicionamentos de tais personagens, que visa elucidar a sub-representação à qual o sujeito negro, na condição de sujeito escravizado, foi submetido. A simbologia arquitetada por Coetzee é precisa: o sujeito escravizado, de nome Sexta-feira, é mutilado fisicamente – não possui sua própria língua, pois essa lhe foi cortada por seu antigo dono, e assim não é capaz de contar sua própria história. De tal fato sobrevém o cerne da narrativa: a ressignificação do silêncio enquanto única instância de resistência frente ao projeto colonizador. Assim, este trabalho busca responder aos questionamentos que a obra literária suscita na ordem das possibilidades de fala do sujeito negro e da legitimidade de sua representação e constituição como o Outro do colonizador. Para isso, privilegiamos as relações que se estabelecem na obra entre o sujeito europeu, detentor da fala e da possibilidade da escrita, e o sujeito subalternizado, privado de sua capacidade de fala.

scholarly journals "The Bard and ‘the Other’: A Post-colonial Re-reading of Sir Thomas More, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damir Kahrić ◽  
Nađa Muhić
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
The Other ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Merchant Of Venice ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
Sir Thomas More ◽  
Binary Division ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this article is to shed light on the representation of ‘the Other’ in three Shakespearean dramas: Sir Thomas More, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest. The article describes several Shakespearean characters through the prism of post-colonialism and, therefore, the paper is structured as the postcolonial re-reading of the aforementioned dramatic texts. William Shakespeare portrayed the sad fate of immigrants in Sir Thomas More, but the Bard also tackled the refugee issue which remains relevant for the contemporary period. Additionally, Shakespeare dramatized the position of the Jewish community in Venice through the portrayal of Shylock. The re-reading of The Tempest focuses on the process of colonisation and the Manichaean division within the conquered world. In conclusion, the article portrays experiences of those dramatic individuals stigmatised and subjugated by the colonial forces, thus allowing the readers to better understand the binary division within colonial systems.

Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Chiari
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Midsummer Night's Dream ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Ability To Act

While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people’s relations to meteorological phenomena. At the same time, a growing number of literati stood against determinism and defended free will, thereby insisting on man’s ability to act upon celestial forces. Yet, in doing so, they began to give precedence to a counter-intuitive approach to Nature. Sophie Chiari argues that Shakespeare reconciles the scholarly views of his time with more popular ideas rooted in superstition and that he promotes a sensitive, pragmatic understanding of climatic events. She pays particular attention to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Taking into account the influence of classical thought, each of the book’s seven chapters emphasises specific issues (e.g. cataclysmic disorders, the dog days’ influence, freezing temperatures, threatening storms) and considers the way climatic events were presented on stage and how they came to shape the production and reception of Shakespeare’s drama.

Double Thoughts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dean
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Paul De Man ◽  
Literature And Philosophy ◽  
De Man ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

Coetzee’s interest in destabilizing the boundaries of literature and philosophy is most evident in later fictions such as Elizabeth Costello. But as Andrew Dean argues in this chapter, this interest in moving across boundaries in fact originates much earlier, in Coetzee’s quarrel with the institutions and procedures of literary criticism. Coetzee used the occasion of his inaugural professorial lecture at the University of Cape Town (Truth and Autobiography) to criticize the assumption that literary criticism can reveal truths about literature to which literary texts are themselves blind. Influenced in part by such figures as Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, Coetzee posed a series of challenging questions about the desires at stake in the enterprise of literary criticism. Developing these thoughts, Dean explores the way in which Coetzee’s earlier fiction, including such texts as Foe (1986), is energized by its quarrelsome relationship with literary criticism and theory, especially postcolonial theory.

The Aesthetics of Island Space

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Riquet
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
Spatial Poetics ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
Modern Experience

The Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts (from The Tempest to The Hungry Tide), journals of explorers and scientists (such as Cook and Darwin), and Hollywood cinema (e.g. The Hurricane and King Kong), tracing how islands have offered vivid perceptual experiences as well as a geopoetic oscillation between the poetic energies of words and images and the material energies of the physical world. Its chapters focus on America’s island gateways (e.g. Roanoke and Ellis Island), tropical islands (e.g. Tahiti and imagined South Sea islands), the islands of the Pacific Northwest, and mutable islands (e.g. the volcanic and coral islands in Wells’s fiction). The book argues that the modern voyages of discovery posed considerable perceptual challenges to spatial experience, and that these challenges were negotiated via the poetic engagement with islands. Postcolonial theorists maintain that islands have been imagined as geometrical abstractions subjected to the colonial gaze. There is, however, a second story of islands in the Western imagination which runs parallel to this colonial story: the experience of islands in the age of discovery also went hand in hand with a disintegration of received models of global space. Rethinking (post-)phenomenological, geocritical, and geopoetic theories, The Aesthetics of Island Space suggests that the modern encounters with islands as mobile and shifting territories implied a diversification of spatial experience, and explores how this disruption is registered and negotiated by non-fictional and fictional responses.

The Under Presents: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-238
Author(s):  
Alicia Corts
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
The Tempest
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