CROSSROADS BLACK AEGEAN CLPR C

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-921718-2
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 414 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 784 g

Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goff, Barbara

Simpson, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Answering Another Sphinx

- 1: Intersections and Networks

- 2: Back to the Motherland: Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame

- 3: Oedipus Rebound: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth

- 4: The City on the Edge: Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

- 5: The Wine-Dark Caribbean? Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice and Derek Walcott's Omeros

- 6: No Man's Island: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island

- 7: History Sisters: Femi Osofisan's Tegonni: An African Antigone

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Reading.

Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London.