03951nam 2200673Ia 450 99621563620331620230725023505.01-283-30712-X97866133071250-19-157347-7(CKB)2670000000025185(EBL)3054102(OCoLC)922970230(SSID)ssj0000409768(PQKBManifestationID)11309305(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409768(PQKBWorkID)10348076(PQKB)10326827(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076034(MiAaPQ)EBC3054102(MiAaPQ)EBC7037523(Au-PeEL)EBL7037523(EXLCZ)99267000000002518520090804d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfro-Greeks[electronic resource] dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century /Emily GreenwoodOxford Oxford University Press20101 online resource (313 p.)Classical presencesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-172218-9 0-19-957524-X Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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.Classical presences.Caribbean literature (English)History and criticismCaribbean literature (English)Greek influencesCaribbean literature (English)Classical influencesMythology, Greek, in literatureCaribbean literature (English)History and criticism.Caribbean literature (English)Greek influences.Caribbean literature (English)Classical influences.Mythology, Greek, in literature.810.99729Greenwood Emily599693MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996215636203316Afro-Greeks2406334UNISA