CLASSICS IN POST-COLONIAL WORLDS by Lorna Hardwick (Editor), Carol Gillespie (Editor) ( 9780199296101 )

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Title:

CLASSICS IN POST-COLONIAL WORLDS

By:

Lorna Hardwick (Editor), Carol Gillespie (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0199296103

ISBN 13:

9780199296101

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 October, 2007

Series:

Classical Presences

Pages:

440

Description:

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. In this collection of essays, international scholars debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

Synopsis:

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 culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

Illustrations:

5 in-text illustrations

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Imprint:

Oxford University Press

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Non-returnable

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