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UNISA996209837803316 |
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Autore |
Goff Barbara E |
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Titolo |
Crossroads in the Black Aegean [[electronic resource] ] : Oedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora / / Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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0-19-160760-6 |
1-281-14961-6 |
9786611149611 |
0-19-152717-3 |
1-4356-2170-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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African drama (English) - History and criticism |
African drama (English) - Classical influences |
African diaspora in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-388) and index. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Answering Another Sphinx; 1. Intersections and Networks; 2. Back to the Motherland: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame; 3. Oedipus Rebound: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth; 4. The City on the Edge: Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus; 5. The Wine-dark Caribbean? Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice and Derek Walcott's Omeros; 6. No Man's Island: Fugard, Kani and Ntshona's The Island; 7. History Sisters: Femi Osofisan's Tegonni: An African Antigone; Bibliography; Index |
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curseof Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, |
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can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical recep |
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UNINA9910778757403321 |
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Autore |
National Research Council Staff |
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Toxicity of military smokes and obscurants . volume 2 [[electronic resource]] |
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Washington, DC, USA, : National Academies Press, 1999 |
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National Academies Press |
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0-309-18422-3 |
1-280-18617-8 |
9786610186174 |
0-309-59692-0 |
0-585-08596-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (131 p.) |
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Combustion gases - Toxicology |
Smoke screens - Toxicology |
Diesel fuels - Toxicology |
Hexachloroethane - Toxicology |
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |
Military Science |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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UNINA9910960039803321 |
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Autore |
Roselle Laura |
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Media and the Politics of Failure : Great Powers, Communication Strategies, and Military Defeats / / by L. Roselle |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006 |
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9786611365806 |
9781349535903 |
1349535907 |
9781281365804 |
1281365807 |
9781403983602 |
1403983607 |
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[1st ed. 2006.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VII, 191 p.) |
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The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, , 2945-6126 |
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Communication in politics |
Political science |
International relations |
Peace |
Political Communication |
Political Science |
International Relations |
Peace and Conflict Studies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Media and the Politics of Failure -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Political Communication and Policy Legitimacy: Explaining Failure -- Chapter 2 War Waging and Reassessment: Vietnam -- Chapter 3 Withdrawal and Aftermath: Vietnam -- Chapter 4 War Waging and Reassessment: Afghanistan -- Chapter 5 Withdrawal and Aftermath: Afghanistan -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and a Post-Cold War Assessment -- Appendix -- Notes -- |
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Sources Consulted and Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
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Roselle analyzes how political leaders of powerful states use media to explain military defeats. The cases of the United States in Vietnam and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan highlight the role of great power identity, domestic politics, and media structure. |
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