Classics in post colonial worlds/
Classics in post colonial worlds/
edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 422 p. ; 23 cm.
- Classical presences. .
Papers from a conference, Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, held at the Open University in Harborne, Birmingham, in May 2004.
Trojan women in Yorubaland : Femi Osofisan's 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 African sisters : West African versions of a Greek original / James Gibbs --
Cross-cultural bonds between Ancient Greece and Africa : implications for contemporary staging practices / John Djisenu --
Curse of the canon : Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame / Michael Simpson --
Post-apartheid Electra : In the city of Paradise / Elke Steinmeyer --
Sculpture at Heroes' acre, Harare, Zimbabwe : classical influences? / Jessie Maritz --
Perspectives on post-colonialsim in South Africa : the Voortrekker monument's classical heritage / Richard Evans --
Imperial reflections : the post-colonial verse-novel as post-epic / Katharine Burkitt --
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 --
"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 / Michael 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 --
Empire never ended / Ika Willas --
Another architecture / David Richards.
9780199296101
Comparative literature--Modern and classical
Classicism in literature
Postcolonialism
Commonwealth countries
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
African literature (English)
Commonwealth literature (English)
325.3960 / HARD/
Papers from a conference, Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, held at the Open University in Harborne, Birmingham, in May 2004.
Trojan women in Yorubaland : Femi Osofisan's 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 African sisters : West African versions of a Greek original / James Gibbs --
Cross-cultural bonds between Ancient Greece and Africa : implications for contemporary staging practices / John Djisenu --
Curse of the canon : Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame / Michael Simpson --
Post-apartheid Electra : In the city of Paradise / Elke Steinmeyer --
Sculpture at Heroes' acre, Harare, Zimbabwe : classical influences? / Jessie Maritz --
Perspectives on post-colonialsim in South Africa : the Voortrekker monument's classical heritage / Richard Evans --
Imperial reflections : the post-colonial verse-novel as post-epic / Katharine Burkitt --
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 --
"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 / Michael 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 --
Empire never ended / Ika Willas --
Another architecture / David Richards.
9780199296101
Comparative literature--Modern and classical
Classicism in literature
Postcolonialism
Commonwealth countries
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
African literature (English)
Commonwealth literature (English)
325.3960 / HARD/