Hamlet’s Arab journey Litvin, Margaret; Litvin, Margaret
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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab ...Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike.
For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a magnet for businesses in search of cheap ...labor and almost no oversight. Imperial Food Products was one of those businesses. The company set up shop in Hamlet in the 1980s. Workers who complained about low pay and hazardous working conditions at the plant were silenced or fired. But jobs were scarce in town, so workers kept coming back, and the company continued to operate with impunity. Then, on the morning of September 3, 1991, the never-inspected chicken-processing plant a stone's throw from Hamlet's city hall burst into flames. Twenty-five people perished that day behind the plant's locked and bolted doors. It remains one of the deadliest accidents ever in the history of the modern American food industry. Eighty years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, industrial disasters were supposed to have been a thing of the past in the United States. However, as award-winning historian Bryant Simon shows, the pursuit of cheap food merged with economic decline in small towns across the South and the nation to devalue laborers and create perilous working conditions. The Hamlet fire and its aftermath reveal the social costs of antiunionism, lax regulations, and ongoing racial discrimination. Using oral histories, contemporary news coverage, and state records, Simon has constructed a vivid, potent, and disturbing social autopsy of this town, this factory, and this time that exposes how cheap labor, cheap government, and cheap food came together in a way that was destined to result in tragedy.
Al-Bassam's The Al Hamlet Summit (2006), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1603), presents a cynical comment on the political corruption in the Arab World and it constitutes from a presentist ...perspective, we argue, an anachronistic critique of some Arab leaders' lapse into normalisation with the long-standing Other, the Israeli occupation. Al-Bassam captures the political corruption and Arab leaders' liaison with Israel through the figure of Claudius, who, like Arab leaders, normalises relations with the enemies of his nation, Fortinbras and the Arms Dealer. Many Arab leaders are normalising relations with Israel as a defensive mechanism against their citizens who have been protesting against dictatorial and tyrannical regimes that have conceived rottenness and corruption in the political and spiritual foundations of the states. While the waves of normalisation that have plagued the contemporary Arab scene raise the spectre of Western hegemony over Arabs, being channelled by the Trump Administration, many Arab leaders hurl to the strategy of normalisation 'pants down' so as to curb their citizens prospective revolutionary acts.
A specter is haunting philosophy -- the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?Entering from stage left: the philosopher's Hamlet. The philosopher's Hamlet is a conceptual ...character, played by philosophers rather than actors. He performs not in the theater but within the space of philosophical positions. In All for Nothing, Andrew Cutrofello critically examines the performance history of this unique role. The philosopher's Hamlet personifies negativity. In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet's speech and action are characteristically negative; he is the melancholy Dane. Most would agree that he has nothing to be cheerful about. Philosophers have taken Hamlet to embody specific forms of negativity that first came into view in modernity. What the figure of the Sophist represented for Plato, Hamlet has represented for modern philosophers. Cutrofello analyzes five aspects of Hamlet's negativity: his melancholy, negative faith, nihilism, tarrying (which Cutrofello distinguishes from "delaying"), and nonexistence. Along the way, we meet Hamlet in the texts of Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Schmitt, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Badiou, Žižek, and other philosophers. Whirling across a kingdom of infinite space, the philosopher's Hamlet is nothing if not thought-provoking.
How can Hamlet be read based on Schmitt? This article analyzes Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play, with aims at understanding the jurist’s interpretation of ...Shakespeare’s Hamlet. After explaining the ideas from the essay by Schmitt, this paper proceeds to a critical account on how the German philosopher reads the Shakespearian play. The conclusion is that Schmitt’s analysis highlights the character of Claudius and demystifies that of Hamlet. Thus, it attempts to mystify politics and demystify the law at the same time.
Qual é a leitura schmittiana de Hamlet? O presente artigo analisará o texto Hamlet ou Hécuba: a irrupção do tempo no jogo do drama, de Carl Schmitt, com o objetivo de entender a interpretação que pelo jurista à tragédia Hamlet, de Shakespeare. Após explicar as ideias contidas nesse ensaio de Schmitt, segue-se com uma reflexão crítica da leitura que o filósofo alemão faz da obra de Shakespeare. Propõe-se que Schmitt busca ressaltar a figura de Cláudio e desmitificar a de Hamlet. Com isso, mitifica-se a política ao mesmo tempo que se desmitifica o direito.
¿Cuál es la lectura schmittiana de Hamlet? El siguiente artículo analizará el texto de Carl Schmitt Hamlet o Hécuba. La irrupción del tiempo en el drama con el objetivo de entender la interpretación del jurista de la tragedia de Shakespeare, Hamlet. Luego de explicar las ideas contenidas en este ensayo de Schmitt se continuará con una reflexión crítica de la lectura que el filósofo alemán hace de la obra de Shakespeare. Se propone que Schmitt busca resaltar a la figura de Claudio y desmitificar a Hamlet. En este sentido, busca mitificar a la política a la vez que desmitificar el derecho.
Shakespeare's Hamlet is a tragedy in which space seems to fold in on itself. If the here of Denmark is reduced to a prison universe, should one look elsewhere to contemplate the unfolding of a ...landscape? This paper shows that the here, a paradoxical land of exile for Hamlet, is evoked by metaphors of confinement, an absence of depth of field, and “haptic” and not “optical” spaces (Deleuze and Guattari). It then looks at the mental landscapes of the elsewhere created either by memory (that of the pre-Reformation period) or by imagination (projecting pictures of the afterlife), in order to see how the vestiges of Catholic places of worship (the sanctuary of Notre Dame de Walsingham; the fresco of the danse macabre) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the cartography of the dread provoked by “the undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns” (3. 1.78-79) are indirectly conveyed.
