Jul 2026· Bakwethu: A Journal of Shakespeare Studies· Vol 1· 0 citations
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After enthusiastically agreeing to review Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies, I found myself hesitating before reading it. As a citizen of a 'post'colony (South Africa) and a descendant of colonisers, I have been down dark tunnels of outrage and guilt with regards to my ancestors' actions. This tunneling is ethically necessary, but also draining and disturbing. Shakespeare used to be a haven I escaped to from the horrors of the real world, but in academic settings, my passion for Shakespeare has been problematised to the point where I feel naïve and ignorant for simply loving his plays. This book was sure to show me more ways in which Shakespeare was and is complicit in colonial processes and legacies of manipulation, oppression and violence towards the most vulnerable. I prayed I could write something intelligible ... O, what form of prayer could serve my turn?
Surveying a range of productions of Shakespeare in the UAE, this article observes a tendency to produce (or tour) the great tyrant tragedies
Macbeth
and
Richard III
to explore the obligations and expectations of good rulership. In the comedies, and in
Romeo and Juliet
, productions seem to highlight what limi...
My essay draws attention to several little-known texts by Wittgenstein in which he addresses the processes which may precede a genocide. I seek to demonstrate that Wittgenstein’s thought contains resources that may be drawn on in confronting such ethical and political problems, and more specifically, in addressing issu...
This research analyzes Hanif Qureshi’s Red Birds from the perspective of Postcolonial literary Resistance. It utilizes theoretical framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony. Said is highly critical of the Eurocentric notions of the western world for such no...
Kanwal Shehzadi, Sadia Nazir, Zartashia Hanif· Journal of Arts and Linguist...· 0 citations
This article studies the performance of mourning for the martyrs of Karbalāʾ as the commemorative and ritualized cultivation of grief as perpetual reminder of the possibility of commitment against injustice. It takes Ismat Chughtai’s (d. 1991) Urdu novel Ek Katrā Khūn or One Drop of Blood as exemplifying the narrative-...
Bharatwaj Iyer· Philosophy East & West· 0 citations
The text of the third Convivialist Manifesto suggests that there is a possible choice to avoid the barbarism that threatens us: to adopt convivialist ideas. As a co-founder of this movement of ideas, I shall explain how we arrived at this new Manifesto. It expresses a kind of new political philosophy of living together...
Tadeusz Różewicz perceived World War II as an apocalyptic catastrophe that brought about the death of poetry. He acknowledged that existing means of expression were powerless in the face of the extermination of Jews, and that this inadequacy evidenced the exhaustion of earlier poetic forms. Różewicz felt compelled to...
P. Stępień, Agnieszka Jeżyk· The Polish Review· 0 citations
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