| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 422 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Case studies. Trojan women in Yorubaland : Femi Osofisan Women of Owu / Felix Budelmann -- Antigone's boat : the colonial and the postcolonial in Tegonni : an African Antigone by Femi Osofisan / Barbara Goff -- Antigone and her sisters : west African versions of a Greek original / James Gibbs -- Cross-cultural bonds between ancient Greece and Africa : implications for contemporary staging practices / John Djisensu -- The curse of the canon : Ola Rotimi's The gods are not blame / Michael Simpson -- Post-apartheid Electra : In the city of paradise / Elke Steinmeyer -- Sculpture at Heroes' acre, Harare, Zimbabwe : classical influences? / Jessie Maritz -- Encounter and new traditions. Perspectives on post-colonialism in South Africa : the Voortrekker Monument's classical heritage / Richard Evans -- Imperial reflections : the post-colonial verse-novel as post-epic / Katharine Burkitt -- A divided child, or Derek Walcott's post-colonial philology / Cashman Kerr Prince -- Arriving backwards : the return of The odyssey in the English-speaking Caribbean / Emily Greenwood -- "If you are a woman" : theatrical womanizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The island / Rush Rehm -- Finding a post-colonial voice for Antigone : Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes / Stephen E. Wilmer -- Challenging theory : framing further questions. "The same kind of smile?" : About the "use and abuse" of theory in constructing the classical tradition / Freddy Decreus -- From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War : a post-liberal reading of Greek tragedy / Michiel Leezenberg -- Western classics, Indian classics : postcolonial contestations / Harish Trivedi -- Shades of multi-lingualism and multi-vocalism in modern performances of Greek tragedy in post-colonial contexts / Lorna Hardwick -- The empire never ended / Ika Willis -- Another architecture / David Richards |
| Summary |
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. In this collection of essays, international scholars debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires |
| Notes |
Papers from a conference, Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, held at the Open University in Harborne, Birmingham, in May 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-409) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from resource page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed October 7, 2021) |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Classical influences
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- Greek influences
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African drama (English) -- Greek influences
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Caribbean literature (English) -- Classical influences
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Caribbean literature (English) -- Greek influences
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Postcolonialism -- Commonwealth countries
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Classicism in literature.
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Comparative literature -- Modern and classical.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Classicism in literature
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Comparative literature -- Modern and classical
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Postcolonialism
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Commonwealth countries
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hardwick, Lorna, author.
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Gillespie, Carol, author.
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| LC no. |
2007025011 |
| ISBN |
9780191537844 |
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0191537845 |
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0199591326 |
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9780199591329 |
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1281155004 |
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9781281155009 |
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9786611155001 |
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6611155007 |
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1435610148 |
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9781435610149 |
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