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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie
440 pages
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5 in-text illustrations
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216x138mm
978-0-19-929610-1
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Hardback
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11 October 2007
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- The first book to discuss the interaction between classical texts and modern culture in a postcolonial setting
- Wide-ranging studies of the creative practice of poets and dramatists such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Femi Osofisan
- Opens up new questions about the nature and trajectories of cultural activity in postcolonial contexts, and thus contributes to wider debates about cultural change
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 followed the end of colonial empires.Readership: Scholars and students of classics, postcolonial studies, theatre studies, comparative literature.
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Edited by Lorna Hardwick, Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University, and Carol Gillespie, Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University Contributors:
Felix Budelmann, The Open University
Katharine Burkitt, University of Salford
Freddy Decreus, University of Ghent
John Djisenu, University of Ghana
Richard Evans, University of Cardiff
James Gibbs, University of the West of England
Barbara Goff, University of
Reading
Emily Greenwood, Univeristy of St Andrews
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Michiel Leezenberg
Jessie Maritz, University of Zimbabwe
Cashman Kerr Prince, University of Southern California
Rush Rehm, Stanford University
David Richards, University of Stirling
Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Elke Steinmeyer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Harish Trivedi, University of Delhi
Steve Wilmer, Trinity College Dublin
Ika Willis, Bristol University
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"A thoughtful contribution." - Victoria Maul, Times Literary Supplement "This volume will be indispensable to anyone working in the field of the Classical Tradition or Classical Reception." - Betine Van Zyl Smit, Acta Classica "All nineteen essays offer glimpses of a field in energetic flux. The book is worth the plunge." - Translation and Literature "an important indication of the newly prominent place of reception studies in the field of classics and also an interesting barometer of the current state of such studies." - Rachel D. Friedman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Lorna Hardwick: Introduction
1. Case Studies
Felix Budelmann: Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu
Barbara Goff: Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan
James Gibbs: Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original
John Djisenu: Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices
Michael Simpson: The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame
Elke Steinmeyer: Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise
Jessie Maritz: Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences?
2. Encounter and New Traditions
Richard Evans: Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage
Katharine Burkitt: Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic
Cashman Kerr Prince: A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology
Emily Greenwood: Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean
Rush Rehm: `If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
Stephen E. Wilmer: Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes
3. Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions
Freddy Decreus: `The same kind of smile': About the `Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition
Michiel Leezenberg: From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy
Harish Trivedi: Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations
Lorna Hardwick: Shades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts
Ika Willis: The Empire Never Ended
David Richards: Another Architecture
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