Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds (eBook)

Atlantis Otherwise

Madeleine M. Henry, Elisa Rizo (Herausgeber)

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2016
130 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498530217 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection responds to the call within the discipline of classical receptions to foster dialogue across cultures and geographies to show the results of the colonially framed traditional approach to classical studies. It also responds to an important development in Hispanic and Lusophone studies: a turn to relational approaches such as transatlantic, transnational, and global analyses.

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Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship.The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.

Autor

Madeleine M. Henry is professor of classics and head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University.Elisa Rizo is associate professor of Hispanic studies at Iowa State University.

Inhalt

Introduction, by Madeleine Henry and Elia RizoChapter 1: From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Cases Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil, by Andrea KouklanakisChapter 2: Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play, by Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo FloresChapter 3: Decolonizing Greek Theater: Black Experimental Theater, by César Augusto BaldiChapter 4: Changó el gran putas: A Drama of Memory, by John MaddoChapter 5: Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Caronte Liberado, by Madeleine HenryChapter 6: Glocalizing Democracy through a Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of Morgades’ Antígona, by Elisa RizoAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
• Co-Autor: Cesar Augusto Baldi, Guilherme Gontijo Flores, Rodrigo Tadeu Goncalves, Madeleine M. Henry, John T. Maddox IV, Andrea Kouklanakis, Elisa Rizo
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adaptations of the classics in contemporary literature • African Studies • Classical literature and identity in Africa • Classical literature and identity in the Americas • Classical receptions in Africa • Classical receptions in Latin America • Greco-Roman classical literature and postcolonial writers • The classics and race and ethnicity • The classics in Latin America • The classics in Portuguese • The classics in Spanish
• ISBN-13: 9781498530217 / 9781498530217