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.
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