Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

ISBN: 9780199296101 出版年：2010 页码：439 Oxford University Press

Introduction 1. CASE STUDIES Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences? 2. ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean 'If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes 3. CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMING FURTHER QUESTIONS 'The same kind of smile': About the 'Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations Shades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts The Empire Never Ended Another Architecture