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Investigating the literary culture of the early interaction between European countries and East Africa, Edward Wilson-Lee uncovers an extraordinary sequence of stories in which explorers, railway labourers, decadent emigres, freedom fighters, and pioneering African leaders made Shakespeare their own in this alien land. 'Shakespeare in Swahililand' is a breathtaking journey across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare's works in the region's history. Shakespeare's plays were (among many other things) carried into the lake regions by the explorers Burton and Stanley, performed in Mombasa by travelling Indian troupes, read by the Happy Valley Set and the first African revolutionaries, set as prescribed reading in colonial-era schools, translated by the first President of Tanzania, pushed by western oil companies during the Cold War, and read by boy soldiers in the Sudanese civil wars. To follow these characters and tell their story, Edward Wilson-Lee, a Fellow in English at Cambridge University, returns to the area where he grew up, navigating the many bewildering parts of modern African life to dig through mouldering archives and meet some of the few remaining witnesses to a scarce believable world that is being quickly forgotten.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Shakespeare in Swahililand
• Autor: Edward Wilson-Lee
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 320
• EAN: 9780008146191
• ISBN: 0008146195
• ID: 09269734
• Wydawca: Harper Collins Publishers
• Waga: 616 g
• Wymiary: 166 × 243 × 33 mm
• Data wydania: 10. March 2016

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