Classics In Post-Colonial Worlds (Classical Presences) - Couverture souple

Hardwick, Lorna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199591326 ISBN 13 : 9780199591329

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2010

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lorna Harwick 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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199591326
• ISBN 13: 9780199591329
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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