Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds [Hardcover]

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

Introduction,Lorna Hardwick
1. Case Studies
Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu,Felix Budelmann
Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial 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
The 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
2. 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
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