Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations

AvJo Eldridge Carney

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways."Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers—novelists, playwrights, and poets—have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his work. Thus far, feminist scholarship has examined creative responses to Shakespeare by women writers through the late twentieth century. This book brings together the "then" of Shakespeare with the "now" of contemporary literature by examining how many of his plays have cultural currency in the present day. Adoption and surrogate childrearing; gender fluidity; global pandemics; imprisonment and criminal justice; the intersection of misogyny and racism—these are all pressing social and political concerns, but they are also issues that are central to Shakespeare’s plays and the early modern period. By approaching material with a fresh interdisciplinary perspective, Women Talk Back to Shakespeare is an excellent tool for both scholars and students concerned with adaptation, women and gender, and intertextuality of Shakespeare’s plays.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:660 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367763527

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Jo Eldridge Carney is a Professor of English at The College of New Jersey where she teaches courses in early modern studies, folk and fairy tales, and contemporary literature.

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"This book provides a model for how analyze and situate the work of women writers in connection with Shakespeare." Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation."Jo Eldridge Carney’s outstanding monograph Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations provides cogent and nuanced analyses of seven consequential twenty-first century Shakespeare-inspired texts, including six novels and one play. As the book’s title announces, Carney’s central focus is exploring the ways in which these texts, via innovative revisions, ‘talk back’ to the characterizations of and narratives concerning women in Shakespeare’s plays as well as biographical accounts of his life, historical and fictional. She compellingly argues that these texts challenge Shakespeare’s plays, his legacy, and/or his popular and scholarly personae directly in diverse ways. Thus, while the overarching approach of the book is feminist, Carney deftly weaves in other theoretical lenses germane to each of these relatively recent works. In doing so, she models the import and necessity of intersectionality in textual analyses during our very late postmodern (or metamodern) moment, particularly when examining adaptations and appropriations, the definitions of which, here, are inspired by Julie Sanders’ highly respected work on the subject."Melissa Croteau, Adaptation, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2026.

Innehållsförteckning

0. Introduction 1 Toni Morrison and Rokia Traoré’s Desdemona and William Shakespeare’s Othello 2. Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest 3. Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest 4. Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time and William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale 5. Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise and William Shakespeare’s Pericles 6. Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and William Shakespeare’s King Lear 7. Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Shakespeare’s Family in Fact and Fiction