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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Jyotsna G. Singh, "Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Description: My guest today is Jyotsna Singh, Professor Emerita of English at Michigan State University. She has written numerous books including Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: âDiscoveryâ of India in the Language of Colonialism (Routledge), and The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics (Blackwell), which is co-authored with Dympna Callaghan and Lorraine Helms. She has also edited A Companion to the Global Renaissance: Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion, 1500-1700 (Wiley-Blackwell), which has gone through two editions. She was among a handful of early scholars who illuminated Shakespeareâs works within non-western, non-canonical contexts. One such example is her early essay...