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200 10$aCrossroads in the Black Aegean$b[electronic resource] $eOedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora /$fBarbara Goff and Michael Simpson
210   $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (414 p.)
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-388) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Index
330   $aCrossroads 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 recep
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606   $aAfrican drama (English)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aAfrican drama (English)$xClassical influences
606   $aAfrican diaspora in literature
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615  0$aAfrican diaspora in literature.
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