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Ancient slavery and abolition [[electronic resource] ] : from Hobbes to Hollywood / / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell
| Ancient slavery and abolition [[electronic resource] ] : from Hobbes to Hollywood / / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (528 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.362 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HallEdith <1959->
AlstonRichard <1965-> McConnellJustine |
| Collana | Classical presences |
| Soggetto topico |
Slavery - History
Antislavery movements - History Classical literature Abolitionists - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-35238-9
0-19-161797-0 9786613352385 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""1. Introduction: �AValuable Lesson�""; ""2. The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom""; ""3. Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s""; ""4. The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795�1834)""; ""5. A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry""; ""6. The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley""
""7. Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer�s The Last Days of Pompeii""""8. The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism""; ""9. Recollecting Aristotle: Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I""; ""10. The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA""; ""11. Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition""; ""12. Universal Slave Revolts: C. L. R. James�s Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins"" ""13. Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby""""Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past""; ""Consolidated 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""; ""X""; ""Z"" |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996207191803316 |
| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Black Odysseys : The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora Since 1939 / / Justine McConnell
| Black Odysseys : The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora Since 1939 / / Justine McConnell |
| Autore | McConnell Justine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 809.8896 |
| Collana | Classical presences Black odysseys |
| Soggetto topico |
African diaspora - History and criticism - Black authors - 20th century
Literature - History and criticism - 21st century Literature, Modern - History and criticism Literature, Modern Homecoming in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Languages & Literatures Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures |
| ISBN |
0-19-175122-7
0-19-960500-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Odysseys of Postcolonialism -- A Martiniquan Ithaca: Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal -- Invisible Odysseus and the Cyclops: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- The 'unread' Homer: Derek Walcott's Omeros and The Odyssey: A Stage Version -- A Deep South Odyssey: Jon Amiel's Sommersby -- Cross-cultural Nostoi: Wilson Harris's The Mask of the Beggar -- South African Penelopes: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela -- Coda: New directions: Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts -- Conclusion: Rewriting Odysseys. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Homeric Odyssey in the African diaspora since 1939 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996209972503316 |
McConnell Justine
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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