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Classics in post-colonial worlds /
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 e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Classical presences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.