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Author:   Lorna Hardwick (Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University) ,  Carol Gillespie (Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780199591329

ISBN 10:   0199591326
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   29 July 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Lorna Hardwick: Introduction 1. Case Studies Felix Budelmann: Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu Barbara Goff: Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan James Gibbs: Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original John Djisenu: Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices Michael Simpson: The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame Elke Steinmeyer: Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise Jessie Maritz: Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences? 2. Encounter and New Traditions Richard Evans: Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage Katharine Burkitt: Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic Cashman Kerr Prince: A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology Emily Greenwood: Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean Rush Rehm: `If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island Stephen E. Wilmer: Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes 3. Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions Freddy Decreus: `The same kind of smile': About the `Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition Michiel Leezenberg: From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy Harish Trivedi: Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations Lorna Hardwick: Shades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts Ika Willis: The Empire Never Ended David Richards: Another Architecture

Reviews

Review from previous edition All nineteen essays offer glimpses of a field in energetic flux. The book is worth the plunge. Translation and Literature an important indication of the newly prominent place of reception studies in the field of classics and also an interesting barometer of the current state of such studies. Rachel D. Friedman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

an important indication of the newly prominent place of reception studies in the field of classics and also an interesting barometer of the current state of such studies. * Rachel D. Friedman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Review from previous edition All nineteen essays offer glimpses of a field in energetic flux. The book is worth the plunge. * Translation and Literature *

`Review from previous edition All nineteen essays offer glimpses of a field in energetic flux. The book is worth the plunge.' Translation and Literature `an important indication of the newly prominent place of reception studies in the field of classics and also an interesting barometer of the current state of such studies.' Rachel D. Friedman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author Information

Lorna Harwick 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

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