The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season

This essay interrogates the loading of the “Roaring Girls” season by asking what it means to “roar” in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined through their treatment by their male counterparts. Performed alongside the 2014 “Midsummer Mischief” new writing season, the plays reposition “roaring” as challenging male-centred modes of representation. Drawing on Marvin Carlson's influential work on “ghosting”, this essay addresses these questions through investigation of the practices and implications of ensemble casting. With Arden of Faversham, The Roaring Girl and The White Devil sharing a single ensemble, the iterated roles of actors across the ensemble become key to understanding the season's overall strategies for presenting and interrogating misogyny. The recycling of actors’ bodies throws into relief the individual roles of the main “roaring girls”, framing and articulating the role of mischievous disruption within the company's work

An Interview with Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul

Ania Loomba and Suvir Kaul are leading figures in Anglo-American and Indian literary studies, bringing a radical political sensibility to the understanding of Renaissance and eighteenth-century writing, as well as to contemporary postcolonial literary cultures. Loomba’s Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama, opened up new fields of inquiry by interpreting Renaissance literary texts in relation to issues of race and colonialism, and her subsequent books have continued to pursue such critical questions in highly original directions — Postcolonial Shakespeares (co-edited with Martin Orkin), Shakespeare, Race and Colonialism, Race in Early Modern England, and Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies (co-edited with Melissa Sanchez). In parallel with her work on early modern culture, Loomba has definitively shaped debates in postcolonial and South Asian studies in Colonialism/Postcolonialism, South Asian Feminisms (co-edited with Ritty A. Lukose) and her latest book, Revolutionary Desires. Kaul has written three discipline-transforming books relating eighteenth-century British literary culture to its formative colonial contexts: Thomas Gray and Literary Authority, Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies. His simultaneous interest in the recent political histories of India and Kashmir is expressed in the well-received and widely cited edited collections The Partitions of Memory and Of Gardens and Graves: Essays on Kashmir; Poems in Translation. Loomba and Kaul’s Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (co-edited with Antoinette Burton, Matt Bunzl and Jed Esty) remains the most vivid and engaging interdisciplinary overview of the field. Both currently teaching in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Loomba and Kaul visited London in the summer of 2018, and were interviewed on 4 June by David Johnson at the Open University in Camden

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Kolonialisme/ Pascakolonialisme

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Is the Early in Early Modern the same as Early in Early Colonial?

Ania Loomba is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BA (Hons.), M. A., and M. Phil. degrees from the University of Delhi, India, and her Ph. D. from the University of Sussex, UK. She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and contemporary Indian literature and culture. She currently holds the Catherine Bryson Chair in the English department. She is also faculty in Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies, and Women’s Studies, and her courses are regularly cross-listed with these programs. Her writings include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (Manchester University Press; 1989; Oxford University Press, 1992), Colonialism/ Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1998; second edition, 2005; with Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Swedish and Indonesian editions) and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (Oxford University Press, 2002). She has co-edited Post-colonial Shakespeares (Routledge, 1998); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Duke University Press, 2005), and Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, 2007). She is series editor (with David Johnson of the Open University, UK) of Postcolonial Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press). Her latest publications are a collection of essays South Asian Feminisms (co-edited with Ritty A. Lukose, Duke University Press, 2012) [http://southasianfeminisms.wordpress.com/] and a critical edition of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (Norton, 2011) [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Antony-and-Cleopatra/] She is currently working on the lives of left-wing Indian women of the 1940s and 1950s, and co-editing (with Melissa Sanchez) Rethinking Feminism: Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Early Modern World. The Forty-Third James Edwin Savage Lecture in the Renaissance will take place on April 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Bondurant Auditorium.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/eng_lec/1006/thumbnail.jp