Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (Paperback, Revised)

Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order--of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon--from the emergent minority literatures. In this challenging study, Peter Erickson insists on bringing the two realms together. He asks: what impact does a revision of the literary canon have on Shakespeare's status?
Part One of his book is about Shakespeare on women. In analyses of several Shakespearean works, Erickson discusses Shakespeare's ambivalence about women as a reflection of male anxiety about the cultural authority of Queen Elizabeth. Part Two is about (contemporary) women on Shakespeare. Erickson discusses Adrienne Rich's revision of the very concept of canon and discusses how several African-American women writers (in particular Maya Angelou and Gloria Naylor) have reflected on the ambivalent status of Shakespeare in their worlds.
Erickson here offers a model for multicultural literary criticism and a new conceptual framework with which to discuss issues of identity politics. "Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves" makes an important contribution to the national debate about educational policy in the humanities.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1994
First published:	1991
Authors:	Peter Erickson
Dimensions:	209 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	228
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-08646-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism Promotions
LSN:	0-520-08646-5
Barcode:	9780520086463

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