Overview
- Contributes to the underrepresented field of Latin-American Shakespeares
- Explores how Shakespeare is consumed and appropriated in Cuba
- Presents how Cuban artists ingest and transform Shakespeare plays
Part of the book series: Global Shakespeares (GSH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban’s Books explores how Shakespeare is consumed and appropriated in Cuba. It contributes to the underrepresented field of Latin American Shakespeares by applying the lens of cultural anthropophagy, a theory with Latin American roots, to explore how Cuban artists ingest and transform Shakespeare’s plays. By consuming these works and incorporating them into Cuban culture and literature, Cuban writers make the plays their own while also nourishing the source texts and giving Shakespeare a new afterlife.
Reviews
As Donna Woodford-Gormley herself points out, scholarly work on the abundant and multilayered presence of Shakespeare in Latin America has been scarce. Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban’s Books is, therefore, much welcome news. This book features the rigor expected from a foreign Shakespearean as much as her strong commitment to grasping the relevant native texts and practices in their own terms. As a result, it everywhere displays a firm command and persuasive use of concepts and testimonies that belong with the minds and hearts of the culture under scrutiny, and pertain to materials and issues aptly chosen and discussed from within that context. Hopefully, Woodford-Gormley’s volume will be a salutary blueprint for future initiatives to provide a similarly precise and caring chronicle of what Shakespeare has contributed to Cuban culture, one among the many that do not seek to merely bow before his mythical aura of universality. Hopefully, too, future endeavours will also offer asfair a picture of how, instead, in Latin America, Shakespeare’s work is more often than not transformed – creatively, joyfully, and profitably – by others and for others.
— Alfredo Michel Modenessi, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban’s Books is the first extensive exploration of Shakespeare’s role in Cuban culture. Despite the challenges faced by an American researcher in post-revolutionary Cuba, Woodford-Gormley has successfully opened a window into Shakespeare’s Cuban afterlife. Using the Latin American construct of “cultural anthropophagy,” she demonstrates the varied ways Cuban artists commit “literary cannibalism,” incorporating Shakespeare’s plots and characters into their own “bodies” of work.
—Virginia Mason Vaughan, Professor Emerita, Clark University
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Donna Woodford-Gormley is a Professor of English Literature at New Mexico Highlands University, USA. She has been researching and writing on Shakespeare in Cuba since 2004, and she has published several articles and book chapters on this subject.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare in Cuba
Book Subtitle: Caliban’s Books
Authors: Donna Woodford-Gormley
Series Title: Global Shakespeares
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87367-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87366-0Published: 06 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87369-1Published: 07 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87367-7Published: 04 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-8901
Series E-ISSN: 2947-891X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 165
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Global/International Theatre and Performance, Adaptation Studies, Performing Arts