Crossroads in the Black Aegean - 9780199217182
Un libro in lingua di Goff Barbara E. Michael Simpson edito da Oxford University Press, 2008
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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, in relation both to that tradition and to alternative African models of cultural transmission.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Crossroads in the Black Aegean
- Sottotitolo: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Goff Barbara E. Michael Simpson
- Editore: Oxford University Press
- Collana: (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 06 Gennaio '08
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : African drama (English) History and criticism African drama (English) Classical influences African diaspora in literature
- Pagine: 401
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 165 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0199217181
- EAN-13: 9780199217182