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Othello Through Critical Lens: Post-Colonial

Keywords for Post-Colonial Theory

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Imperial, Euro-Centric, Exploitation, Racism, Racial hierarchy, Diaspora, Neocolonial Corporations, Usurpation, Trade, Oppression, Issues of power, economics, politics, religion, and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial hegemony

Philosophers and Theorists: Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Writers: Chinua Achebe, Alice Walker, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison  

Databases

Example of an article:

Bartels, Emily C. “Othello and Africa: Postcolonialism Reconsidered.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, 1997, pp. 45–64. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953312.

Example of an article:

Löschnigg, Maria. "Shakespeare’s Post-Colonial Legacy: The Case of Othello." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Catherine C. DiMercurio, vol. 189, Gale, 2019, pp. 214-223. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/doc/KJLXVN966898799/LCO?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=2f818a05. Originally published in Anglia, vol. 131, no. 1, 2013, pp. 17-34.

Example of an article:

Adelman, Janet. "Iago's alter ego: Race as projection in Othello." Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 2, 1997, pp. 125-144. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/iagos-alter-ego-race-as-projection-othello/docview/195874710/se-2.

Example of an eBook:

Thomas, Dominic Richard David. Review of Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. Research in African Literatures, vol. 34 no. 3, 2003, p. 214-215. Project MUSEhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2003.0088.