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Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds

Atlantis Otherwise

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-09-21
Mått159 x 237 x 15 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBlack Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Antal sidor130
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498530200

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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

This isn’t a long book; on the contrary, at a little over one hundred pages, it is a compact collection, and one that offers a strong suggestion of the fruitful scholarship that may result from collaborations by academics from Classics and African Diaspora Studies. Each essay contains a bibliography and notes that inspire readers to explore these lines of inquiry. . . with this study, the series editors have made an important intervention in both disciplines and offer a glimpse of the work to emerge in the coming decades.