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. INDICE: 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 Multilingualismand Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts; Ika Willis: The Empire Never Ended; David Richards: Another Architecture
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959132-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés