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Record Nr.

UNISA996215636203316

Autore

Greenwood Emily

Titolo

Afro-Greeks [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century / / Emily Greenwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-283-30712-X

9786613307125

0-19-157347-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Disciplina

810.99729

Soggetti

Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism

Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences

Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences

Mythology, Greek, in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Goodbye to Hellas""; ""Overview of Chapters""; ""1 An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean""; ""Patrick Leigh Fermor�s The Traveller�s Tree""; ""Towards a New World Odyssey""; ""Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcott�s Dialogue with Modern Greece""; ""2 Classics as School of Empire""; ""Classics and the Educational Elite""; ""Contesting the Curriculum""; ""Afro-Romans and Imperial Redistribution""; ""C. L. R. James: Finding one�s Own Way in Classics""; ""Conclusion""

""3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature""""Translating Latin Badly""; ""Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarke�s The Polished Hoe (2002)""; ""The Postcolonial Virgil in V. S. Naipaul""; ""Derek Walcott: Translating Empire""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy""; ""Athens in Trinidad I: C. L. R. James""; ""Athens in Trinidad II: Eric Williams""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon""; ""The Unstable Canon: A Tale of Two Helens""



""Classics of National Literature?""""Postcolonial Classics: Writing from Rome in Brathwaite�s X/Self""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the reception of classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully adapted classics to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive tradition.