Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

by Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199296101
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2007
Series:	Classical Presences
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University. Carol Gillespie is Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Lorna Hardwick1. Case StudiesTrojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Felix BudelmannAntigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan, Barbara GoffAntigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original, James GibbsCross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices, John DjisenuThe Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame, Michael SimpsonPost-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise, Elke SteinmeyerSculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences?, Jessie Maritz2. Encounter and New TraditionsPerspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage, Richard EvansImperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic, Katharine BurkittA Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology, Cashman Kerr PrinceArriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean, Emily Greenwood‘If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island, Rush RehmFinding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes, Stephen E. Wilmer3. Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions‘The same kind of smile': About the ‘Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition, Freddy DecreusFrom the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy, Michiel LeezenbergWestern Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations, Harish TrivediShades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts, Lorna HardwickThe Empire Never Ended, Ika WillisAnother Architecture, David Richards