LEADER 03951nam 2200673Ia 450 001 996215636203316 005 20230725023505.0 010 $a1-283-30712-X 010 $a9786613307125 010 $a0-19-157347-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000025185 035 $a(EBL)3054102 035 $a(OCoLC)922970230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409768 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11309305 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409768 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10348076 035 $a(PQKB)10326827 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3054102 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7037523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7037523 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000025185 100 $a20090804d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfro-Greeks$b[electronic resource] $edialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century /$fEmily Greenwood 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 225 1 $aClassical presences 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-172218-9 311 $a0-19-957524-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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 Fermora???s The Travellera???s Tree""; ""Towards a New World Odyssey""; ""Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcotta???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 onea???s Own Way in Classics""; ""Conclusion"" 327 $a""3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature""""Translating Latin Badly""; ""Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarkea???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"" 327 $a""Classics of National Literature?""""Postcolonial Classics: Writing from Rome in Brathwaitea???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"" 330 8 $aAn exploration of the reception of classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully adapted classics to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive tradition. 410 0$aClassical presences. 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xGreek influences 606 $aCaribbean literature (English)$xClassical influences 606 $aMythology, Greek, in literature 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xGreek influences. 615 0$aCaribbean literature (English)$xClassical influences. 615 0$aMythology, Greek, in literature. 676 $a810.99729 700 $aGreenwood$b Emily$0599693 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996215636203316 996 $aAfro-Greeks$92406334 997 $aUNISA