AFRICAN ATHENA CLPR C

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-959500-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history.

The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production.

African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.

Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Al, Orrells Et

Orrells, Daniel

Bhambra, Gurminder K.

Roynon, Tessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Myths and Historiographies, Ancient and Modern

- 1: Maghan Keita: Believing in Ethiopians

- 2: Patrice Rankine: Black Apolloa Martin Bernal's The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume III and Why Race Still Matters?

- 3: Partha Mitter: Greece, India and Race among the Victorians

- 4: Margaret Malamud: Black Minerva: Antiquity in antebellum African American history

- 5: Kenneth Goings and Eugene O Connor: Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Black Colleges and Universities

- 6: Robbie Shilliam: Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: Garveyism, Rastafari and Antiquity

- 7: Anna Hartnell: Between Exodus and Egypt: Israel-Palestine and the break-up of the Black-Jewish Alliance

- 8: Toby Green: Beyond Culture Wars: Reconnecting African and Jewish Diasporas in the Past and the Present

- 9: Stephen Howe: Egyptian Athena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa: Martin Bernal and Contemporary African Historical Thought

- 10: Robert J. C. Young: The After-lives of Black Athena

- Part II: Classical Diaspora / Diasporic Classics

- 11: V. Y. Mudimbe: In the House of Libya: A Meditation

- 12: Tim Whitmarsh: Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity: the invention of the novel

- 13: Paolo Asso: The Idea of Africa in Lucan

- 14: John H. Starks, Jr.: Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa?

- 15: J. Mira Seo: Identifying Authority: Juan Latino, an African Ex-Slave, Professor and Poet in Sixteenth-Century Granada

- 16: John Gilmore: John Barclay's Camella Poems: Ideas of Race, Beauty and Ugliness in Renaissance Latin Verse

- 17: Brian H. Murray: 'Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown': Gerald Massey and Late-Victorian Afrocentrism

- 18: John Thieme: 'Not equatorial black, not Mediterranean white': Denis Williams Other Leopards

- 19: Astrid Van Weyenberg: Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy: Performing Politics

- 20: Edith Hall and Justine McConnell: Mythopoeia in the Struggle against Slavery, Racism, and Exclusive Afrocentrism

- 21: Emily Greenwood: Dislocating Black Classicism: Classics and the Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite

- 22: Tessa Roynon: The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison

- Afterword

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Orrells was educated at King's College, University of Cambridge. He is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick.

Gurminder K. Bhambra holds degrees from the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics. She is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, and has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College, US. She won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in sociology in 2008 for Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination.

Tessa Roynon teaches English and American literature at the University of Oxford. Her current research centres on the classical tradition in modern American fiction; additionally she is writing The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison. She studied English at Clare College, University of Cambridge, has an M.A. from Georgetown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and was awarded her PhD by the University of Warwick in 2007.