Lorna (Hrsg.) Hardwick

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

Buch

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 cul… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Gillespie, Carol (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-929610-1
EAN: 9780199296101
Produktnummer: 22677933
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 420 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.9 cm 649 g
Gewicht: 649

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.