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Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Emily Greenwood
314 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-957524-4
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Hardback
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28 January 2010
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- Challenges simplistic notions of 'decolonization' by addressing the creative appropriation of Classics by Caribbean authors
- Includes insightful readings of works by important authors such as Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Eric Williams
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assume an antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of
empire, and Caribbean literature. While acknowledging the importance of this imperial context, Greenwood argues that Caribbean appropriations of Classics played an important role in formulating original, anti-colonial and anti-imperial criticism in Anglophone Caribbean fiction. Afro-Greeks reveals how, in the twentieth century, two generations of Caribbean writers, including Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Eric Williams, created a distinctive, regional counter-tradition of reading Greco-Roman Classics.Readership: Scholars and students of classics; Caribbean literature; postcolonial studies; comparative literature; reception studies.
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Emily Greenwood, Associate Professor of Classics, Yale University
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"Greenwood writes with intelligence and passion. She has produced an excellent book, which will benefit scholars of the reception of the Classics, of Caribbean literature in English, as well as scholars interested in postcolonialism and world literature in general." - Scholia
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Introduction: Goodbye to Hellas
1: An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean
2: Classics as School of Empire
3: Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature
4: The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy
5: Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon
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