Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

Name: Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
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ISBN: 9780199591329

ISBN-10: 0199591326

ISBN-13: 9780199591329

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie

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Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have…

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 7/29/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.50" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Contributors


Introduction




Case Studies



Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu




Antigone's Boat: the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan




Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original




Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices




The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame




Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise




Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences?




Encounter and New Traditions



Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: the Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage




Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic




A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology




Arriving Backwards: the Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean




'If You are a Woman': Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island




Finding a Post-Colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes




Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions



'The Same Kind of Smile?' About the 'Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition




From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: a Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy




Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations




Shades of Multi-Lingualism and Multi-Vocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts




The Empire Never Ended




Another Architecture



Bibliography


Index