In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness by engaging with aspects of South Africa's complicated, painful, fascinating political and cultural worlds.
In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate to iconic Englishness. Shakespeare and the Coconuts offers an alternative vision that reformulates simplistic racial binaries through an interrogation of the relationship between 'Shakespeare' and a particular construction of what it means to be 'South African' and 'African'.
