03233nam 2200661Ia 450 99620983780331620230721030223.00-19-160760-61-281-14961-697866111496110-19-152717-31-4356-2170-0(CKB)1000000000374992(EBL)693961(OCoLC)648360647(SSID)ssj0000086139(PQKBManifestationID)11118967(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000086139(PQKBWorkID)10025896(PQKB)10866240(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073600(MiAaPQ)EBC693961(MiAaPQ)EBC7033989(Au-PeEL)EBL7033989(EXLCZ)99100000000037499220070724d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrossroads in the Black Aegean[electronic resource] Oedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora /Barbara Goff and Michael SimpsonOxford Oxford University Press20071 online resource (414 p.)Classical presencesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-171238-8 0-19-921718-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-388) and index.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; IndexCrossroads 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, can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical recepClassical presences.African drama (English)History and criticismAfrican drama (English)Classical influencesAfrican diaspora in literatureAfrican drama (English)History and criticism.African drama (English)Classical influences.African diaspora in literature.820.9896Goff Barbara E188210Simpson Michael1934-1020936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996209837803316Crossroads in the Black Aegean2417079UNISA