Une réécriture amérindienne du théâtre de Shakespeare : Hamlet-le-Malécite

A recent Canadian rewriting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet stages characters in a Native Canadian reserve in Quebec. This paper shows how theatrical mixity may be seen as an element of resistance and the mise en abyme of theatre as an instrument of denunciation of the evils of the time. This Canadian play...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Caliban
Main Author: Besson, Françoise
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2015
Subjects:
autochtones
Canada
écologie
Hamlet
langues
mythes
Premières Nations
résistance
Shakespeare
litt
hist
First Nations
Malecite
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/870
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Summary:A recent Canadian rewriting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet stages characters in a Native Canadian reserve in Quebec. This paper shows how theatrical mixity may be seen as an element of resistance and the mise en abyme of theatre as an instrument of denunciation of the evils of the time. This Canadian play exposes all the evils afflicting the First Nations today and all the damage caused to their territories for the sake of profit. The play, using several languages, also illustrates how language may be an element of resistance through the depiction of the predicament of a particular community inscribed in the eternally repeated history of mankind.

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