Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
ISBN13: 9780199296101ISBN10: 0199296103
Hardback,
420 pages
Nov 2007,
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Description
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.Features
- The first book to discuss the interaction between classical texts and modern culture in a postcolonial setting
- Wide-ranging studies of the creative practice of poets and dramatists such as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and Femi Osofisan
- Opens up new questions about the nature and trajectories of cultural activity in postcolonial contexts, and thus contributes to wider debates about cultural change
Product Details
420 pages; 5 in-text illus.; 5 1/2 X 8 1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-929610-1ISBN10: 0-19-929610-3About the Author(s)
Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University. Carol Gillespie is Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University.
