LEADER 04822nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910824779103321 005 20240418141720.0 010 0 $a0191537845 010 0 $a9780191537844 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7033596 035 $a(CKB)24235056800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415166 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415166 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197098 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115500 035 $a(OCoLC)437092993 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235056800041 100 $a20070618d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aClassics in post-colonial worlds$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford [England] ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $axv, 422 p 225 1 $aClassical presences 300 $aPapers from a conference, Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, held at the Open University in Harborne, Birmingham, in May 2004. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [364]-409) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: CASE STUDIES -- 1. Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu -- 2. Antigone's Boat: the Colonial and the Postcolonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone by Femi Osofisan -- 3. Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original -- 4. Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices -- 5. The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not To Blame -- 6. Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise -- 7. Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences? -- PART II: ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS -- 8. Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: the Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage -- 9. Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic -- 10. A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology -- 11. Arriving Backwards: the Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean -- 12. 'If You are a Woman': Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island -- 13. Finding a Post-Colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes -- PART III: CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMING FURTHER QUESTIONS -- 14. 'The Same Kind of Smile?' About the 'Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition -- 15. From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: a Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy -- 16. Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations -- 17. Shades of Multi-Lingualism and Multi-Vocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts -- 18. The Empire Never Ended -- 19. Another Architecture -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. 327 $aZ. 330 $aClassical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. In this collection of essays, international scholars debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires. 410 0$aClassical presences. 517 3 $aClassics in postcolonial worlds 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xClassical influences 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xGreek influences 606 $aAfrican drama (English)$xGreek influences 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xClassical influences 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xGreek influences 606 $aPostcolonialism$zCommonwealth countries 606 $aClassicism in literature 606 $aComparative literature$xModern and classical 606 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xClassical influences. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xGreek influences. 615 0$aAfrican drama (English)$xGreek influences. 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xClassical influences. 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xGreek influences. 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aClassicism in literature. 615 0$aComparative literature$xModern and classical. 615 0$aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 676 $a820.9/9171241 701 $aHardwick$b Lorna$0176614 701 $aGillespie$b Carol$01696891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910824779103321 996 $aClassics in post-colonial worlds$94077193 997 $aUNINA