Devouring Shakespeare in a Brazilian midsummer night's dream
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v1i24p51-68Keywords:
Shakespeare, anthropophagy, parody, epistemic disobedience, decolonialityAbstract
In this paper, we aim at analyzing Adriana Falcão’s Sonho de uma noite verão, published in 2007 as part of the collection Devouring Shakespeare. More specifically, we intend to examine how Shakespeare himself was recreated as a character in this narrative by means of parody and anthropophagy. Although usually associated with Western/modern/colonialist values and ideologies, Shakespeare may also be perceived and employed as a powerful remedy or antidote created in/by the South. Through epistemic disobedience and an intercultural and ambivalent actualization of Shakespeare as a character amid the festivities of the Carnival in Salvador, Falcão creates a Brazilian decolonial narrative, which subverts the hegemonic discourses from the North via anthropophagy and parody.
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