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From Shakespeare to Obama

A Study in Language, Slavery and Place

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 1-5
  3. Representing Slaves

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 7-28
  4. Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 29-42
  5. Vision

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 91-112
  6. Theory

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 113-126
  7. Eco, Story and History

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 127-138
  8. Vassanji, Africa and America

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 139-158
  9. Obama, America and Africa

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 159-184
  10. Obama and Slavery

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 185-206
  11. Conclusion

    • Jonathan Hart
    Pages 207-212
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-255

About this book

From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight into questions of otherness, rhetoric, and stereotyping.

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"From Shakespeare to Obama is a writerly, inventive, idiosyncratic series of meditations on language, slavery, rhetoric, and the public and the private, reaching into past and future, forging a new and exciting model for comparative scholarship as engaged story-telling." - Page duBois, Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego, USA

About the author

Jonathan Hart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has published ten books with Palgrave Macmillan, most recently, Textual Imitation (2012), Literature, Theory, History (2011); Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2011); and Shakespeare: Poetry, History and Culture (2009). He is also a poet and his most recent works are Dreamwork (2010) and Musing (2011), a book of sonnets. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III).

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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