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Litvin, Margaret.

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"Hamlet"'s Arab journey: Adventures in political culture and drama (1952--2002).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Hamlet"'s Arab journey: Adventures in political culture and drama (1952--2002)./
Author:	Litvin, Margaret.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Joel Kraemer.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3219551
ISBN:	9780542710957

"Hamlet"'s Arab journey: Adventures in political culture and drama (1952--2002).
Litvin, Margaret.

"Hamlet"'s Arab journey: Adventures in political culture and drama (1952--2002). - 268 p.

Adviser: Joel Kraemer.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2006.

This study traces the appropriations of Shakespeare's Hamlet in modern Arabic literature and Arab public culture. Drawing on methods from anthropology, literary history, and performance studies, I show how Hamlet came to the Arab world through a "global kaleidoscope" of models and has been deployed to serve a variety of rhetorical ends. Today's Arab polemicists tend to use "to be or not to be" as an urgent, collective call to arms. Such rhetoric relies on a shared image of Hamlet as a positive revolutionary hero, a martyr for justice in an out-of-joint world. Challenging the prevailing accounts of postcolonial literary appropriation, I argue that this image developed in the Egyptian theatre in the 1960s in dialogue with a broad array of international artistic models (particularly Soviet and Eastern versions) and in response to local political needs. The heroic Arab Hamlet enjoyed a brief heyday after 1970, only to wither by 1976 under a blistering post-political irony. Recent Arab offshoot plays have featured passive, silent anti-Hamlets as protagonists; instead, their imaginative center is a monstrous and self-justifying Claudius. Offering the first systematic account of Arab Hamlet appropriation, my study helps illuminate the shifting political reflexes and rhetorical strategies of twentieth-century intellectuals in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. By focusing on Hamlet himself as a political rewriter, it also highlights an often forgotten dimension of Shakespeare's text.

ISBN: 9780542710957Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

"Hamlet"'s Arab journey: Adventures in political culture and drama (1952--2002).
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