EBOOK Afro-Greeks:Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the -

EBOOK Afro-Greeks:Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191610318
EAN: 272360FCEB
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Stron: 314
Data wydania: 2010
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Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean,        from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the        ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone        Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the        educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the        colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assumean        antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of empire,        and Caribbean literature. While acknowledging the importance of this imperial        context, Greenwood argues that Caribbean appropriations of Classics played an        important role in formulating original, anti-colonial andanti-imperial criticism in        Anglophone Caribbean fiction. Afro-Greeks reveals how, in the twentieth century, two        generations of Caribbean writers, including Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John        Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and Eric Williams, created a        distinctive, regional counter-tradition of reading Greco-Roman Classics.

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