LEADER 04249nam 2200661 450 001 9910462980703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0957-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209571 035 $a(CKB)2670000000429140 035 $a(EBL)1402882 035 $a(OCoLC)858764947 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001037297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11661547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042854 035 $a(PQKB)10784812 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1402882 035 $a(OCoLC)854299737$z(OCoLC)852224126$z(OCoLC)857280446$z(OCoLC)859198432 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1402882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10764727 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL519220 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000429140 100 $a20131009d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of adaptation $econtemporary African drama and Greek tragedy /$fAstrid Van Weyenberg 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aCross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v165 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3700-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- African Antigones: ?Wherever the call for freedom is heard!? -- Ritual and Revolution: Wole Soyinka?s Bacchae, a Yoruba Tragedy -- Staging Transition: The Oresteia in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Mourning Remains: Femi Osofisan?s Women of Owu -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aThis book explores contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies. Six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts ? by Yael Farber, Mark Fleishman, Athol Fugard, Femi Osofisan, and Wole Soyinka ? are analysed through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mourning. The opening chapters focus on plays that mobilize Greek tragedy to inspire political change, discussing how Sophocles? heroine Antigone is reconfigured as a freedom fighter and how Euripides? Dionysos is transformed into a revolutionary leader. The later chapters shift the focus to plays that explore the costs and consequences of political change, examining how the cycle of violence dramatized in Aeschylus? Oresteia trilogy acquires relevance in post-apartheid South Africa, and how the mourning of Euripides? Trojan Women resonates in and beyond Nigeria. Throughout, the emphasis is on how playwrights, through adaptation, perform a cultural politics directed at the Europe that has traditionally considered ancient Greece as its property, foundation, and legitimization. Van Weyenberg additionally discusses how contemporary African reworkings of Greek tragedies invite us to reconsider how we think about the genre of tragedy and about the cultural process of adaptation. Against George Steiner?s famous claim that tragedy has died, this book demonstrates that Greek tragedy holds relevance today. But it also reveals that adaptations do more than simply keeping the texts they draw on alive: through adaptation, playwrights open up a space for politics. In this dynamic between adaptation and pre-text, the politics of adaptation is performed. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v165. 606 $aAfrican drama (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xAppreciation$zAfrica 606 $aAfrican drama (English)$xGreek influences 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican drama (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xAdaptations$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy)$xAppreciation 615 0$aAfrican drama (English)$xGreek influences. 676 $a882.00911 700 $aWeyenberg$b Astrid Van$0993517 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462980703321 996 $aThe politics of adaptation$92274944 997 $aUNINA