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Classics in post-colonial worlds/ edited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie

Contributor(s): Hardwick, Lorna, ed | Gillespie, Carol, edMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (Classical presences)Publication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xv, 422 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780199296101Subject(s): Comparative literature--Modern and classical | Postcolonialism | Commonwealth countries | Comparative literature--Classical and modernDDC classification: 325.3

Contents:

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.

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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.

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