Jonathan Goldberg Livres

Shakespeare's Tempest has long been claimed by colonials and postcolonial thinkers alike as the dramatic work that most enables them to confront their entangled history. Tempest in the Caribbean reads some of the "classic" anticolonial texts -- by Aime Cesaire and Roberto Fernandez Retamar, for instance -- through the lens of feminist and queer analysis. Extending the Tempest plot, Jonathan Goldberg considers recent works by Caribbean authors and social theorists, among them Sylvia Wynter, Michelle Cliff, Patricia Powell, and Jamaica Kincaid. These rewritings, he suggests, present alternatives to the masculinist and heterosexual bias of the legacy that has been derived from The Tempest, and his work points to new possibilities that might be articulated through the nexus of race and sexuality. Book jacket.

In readings ranging from early-16th- through late-17th-century texts, this book aims to resituate women's writing in the English Renaissance by studying the possibilities available to these writers by virtue of their positions in society and by their articulation of the desire to write.

Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life.

Focusing on English Renaissance literature, this work analyzes texts by notable authors like Shakespeare and Milton through a postmodern lens. It explores the transformation of Ovidian figures, such as Narcissus and Echo, as well as the influence of Virgilian pastoral themes. The book delves into the complex relationship between voice and writing, highlighting how these classical paradigms inform contemporary interpretations of literary works.

These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess.