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Shakespeare's Asian journeys : Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel / edited by Bi-qi-Beatrice Lei ; Judy Celine Ick and Poonam Trivedi.

  • Accession number

    83429970

  • Class

    63.2 Asia/SHA

  • ISBN

    9781138213364

  • Physical description

    xix, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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Contents: Preface: On Memorials; Shakespeare's Asian Journeys: An Introduction; PART I: Re-Defining the Field of Asian Shakespeare: 1 The Augmentation of the Indies: An Archipelagic Approach to Asian and Global Shakespeare -- 2 Shakespeare's Long Journey to Japan: His Contribution to Her Modernization and Cultural Exchange -- 3 Unraveling Hamlet's Spiritual and Sexual Journeys: An Inter-critical Detour via the Gita and Gandhi -- 4 Shakespeare's Asian Journey or "White Mask, Black Handkerchief": A Case Study for Translation Theory in Miyagi Satoshi's "Mugen-Noh" Othello and Omar Porras's "Bilingual" Romeo and Juliet. PART II: Shakespeare and Asian Politics: 5 "I May Be Straight, Though They Themselves Be Bevel": Taiwan's Early Shakespear -- 6 The Great General and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme -- 7 Political Shakespeare in Korea: Hamlet as a Subversive Cultural Text in the 1980s -- 8 Hijacking Shakespeare: The Three Faces of Indonesian Julius Caesars. PART III: Shakespeare and Asian Identity: 9 Shakespeare as Cultural Capital: Its Rise, Fall, and Renaissance in Philippine Elite Education -- 10 Makyung Titis Sakti: Reflections on Malay Traditional Performance, Culture and the Malay Worldview through an Adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 11 A Journeying Shakespeare, or Adjourning Shakespeare: Making (Foreign) Shakespeare in Seoul. PART IV: Asian Shakespeare and Pop Culture: 12 Pleasurable Errors and Erroneous Pleasures: Renegotiating Shakespearean Romance in Three Indian Films -- 13 "The Very Basics for All of Us": Fragments of Shakespeare in Japanese Anime and Manga.