Greek Tragedy and the Middle East

Chasing the Myth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvPauline Donizeau,Yassaman Khajehi,Daniela Potenza,France) Donizeau, Pauline (Lumiere University Lyon 2,France) Khajehi, Yassaman (Clermont Auvergne University,Italy) Potenza, Daniela (Messina University,Sarah Annes Brown

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Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th century until the present day, this book first explores the earlier phase of the development of Greek classical reception in Middle Eastern theatre. It then moves to focus on modern Arabic, Persian and Turkish adaptations of Greek tragedy both in the early post-colonial and contemporary periods in the MENA and in Europe. Case by case, this book examines how the classical sources are reworked and adapted, as well as how they engage with interculturality, hybridisation and the circulation of aesthetics and models. At the same time, it explores the implications and consequences of expressing socio-political concerns through classical Greek sources.While Muslim thinkers and translators introduced Greek philosophy – in particular Aristotle’s Poetics – to the West in the Middle Ages, adaptations of Greek tragedies only appeared in the MENA region at the very beginning of the 20th century. For this reason, the development of Greek tragedy in the Middle East is difficult to disentangle from colonialism and cultural imperialism. Encompassing language differences and offering for the first time a broad approach on the Middle-Eastern reception of Greek tragedy, this book produces a renewed focus on a fascinating aspect of the classical tradition.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-04
Mått162 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieClassical Diaspora
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350355699

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List of ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Adaptations and Translations of Greek Tragedy in a Colonial Context: A Historical perspective1. Tragic Ways, Tragic Voices: Translating Greek Tragedy in the Wake of the Nahda, Roberto Salazar (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)2. Oedipus of Thebes on Arab Stages, Marvin Carlson (The City University of New York, USA)3. From Ancient Greek Theatre to Turkish Theatre and Back: State of the Art, Erica Letailleur (Université Côte d’Azur, France)Part II: The Model as Diversion: A Tool to Tackle Political Issues on the Contemporary Stages4. Brave Women in a Mad World: Euripides and the State of the Exception in Arab Theatre, Daniela Potenza (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy) 5. So Many Medeas! Medea in Iran and Lebanon Since 2015, Yassaman Khajehi (Clermont Auvergne University, France)6. Antigone in Iran: Towards a Political Subject of Resistance, Rezvan Zandieh (University of Caen Normandie, France)7. When Iraqi Theatre Met the World Again: Haythem Abderrazak and His Looking for Oresteia, Antonio Pacifico (Jean Moulin University of Lyon, France)Part III: Greek Tragedy, A Shared Heritage? 8. Ambivalence of Interpretation Between Israel and France in Hanoch Levin's Theatre Tragic Materials, Emmanuelle Thiébot (Independent Scholar) 9. Sophocles’ Antigone by French Director Adel Hakim (2011): Using Greek Tragedy to Pay Tribute to Palestinian Resistance, Astrid Chabrat-Kajdan (Université Lyon 2, France)10. Looking at Iraq from Afar: Two Oresteia on European Stages, Pauline Donizeau (University Lumière-Lyon 2, France)11. Tingitanos by Zoubeir Ben Bouchta: A Moroccan Tragedy, Omar Fertat (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)NotesBibliographyIndex

Greek Tragedy and the Middle East re-establishes the cultural power of Greek tragedy and its availability to be adapted, modified, evolved, decolonized, and reimagined, giving voice to the oppressed and the underrepresented. At the same time, it critically problematizes the Eurocentric interpretations of Greek plays, offering thereby a reference book on the reception of Greek tragedy in the Middle East.

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