Lorna (Hrsg.) Hardwick

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

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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 representhistories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the cult… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gillespie, Carol (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-161547-4
EAN: 9780191615474
Produktnummer: 13916230
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'232 KB
Abbildungen: 5 in-text illustrations

Über den Autor

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.