"Something more than fantasy": fathering postcolonial identities through Shakespeare

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dc.contributor.advisorFriedman, Alan Warrenen
dc.contributor.advisorMallin, Eric Scotten
dc.creatorWaddington, George Rolanden
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-28T22:44:49Zen
dc.date.available2008-08-28T22:44:49Zen
dc.date.issued2005en
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the referential and structural presence of “Shakespeare” in the autobiographies of Joseph Conrad (A Personal Record), Michael Ondaatje (Running in the Family) and Edward Said (Out of Place). These authors evoke “Shakespeare”—the product of centuries of political, national, and personal appropriation—as a means of understanding their own complex heritages, even as they displace his canonical authority. Exploring the relationships among Shakespeare’s plays, modern or contemporary autobiography, and postcolonial theories of cultural hybridity, I argue that writers and countries try constantly to secure Shakespearean paternity even for transgressive, postcolonial ends.
dc.description.departmentEnglishen
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifierb61149251en
dc.identifier.oclc71143502en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/2356en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.subject.lcshShakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Influenceen
dc.subject.lcshConrad, Joseph,--1857-1924--Personal recorden
dc.subject.lcshOndaatje, Michael,--1943---Running in the familyen
dc.subject.lcshSaid, Edward W--Out of placeen
dc.subject.lcshPostcolonialismen
dc.subject.lcshIdentity (Psychology) in literatureen
dc.subject.lcshAutobiographyen
dc.title"Something more than fantasy": fathering postcolonial identities through Shakespeareen
dc.type.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentEnglishen
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen

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