This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest for identity, the Odyssey has inspired writers who are simultaneously striving against and appropriating the very forms which had been used to oppress them.
This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest for identity, the Odyssey has inspired writers who are simultaneously striving against and appropriating the very forms which had been used to oppress them.
Justine McConnell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oxford University's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, working on the 'Performing Epic' project. She is co-editor of Ancient Slavery and Abolition: from Hobbes to Hollywood (OUP, 2011) with Edith Hall and Richard Alston, and of a forthcoming volume, The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine.
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* Acknowledgements * List of illustrations * Introduction: The Odysseys of Postcolonialism * 1: A Martiniquan Ithaca: Aimé Césaire's Cahier d un retour au pays natal * 2: Invisible Odysseus and the Cyclops: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man * 3: The 'unread' Homer: Derek Walcott's Omeros and The Odyssey: A Stage Version * 4: A Deep South Odyssey: Jon Amiel's Sommersby * 5: Cross-Cultural Nostoi: Wilson Harris' The Mask of the Beggar * 6: South African Penelopes: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela * Coda: New Directions: Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts * Conclusion: Rewriting Odysseys * Appendix: Interview with Jatinder Verma * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * List of illustrations * Introduction: The Odysseys of Postcolonialism * 1: A Martiniquan Ithaca: Aimé Césaire's Cahier d un retour au pays natal * 2: Invisible Odysseus and the Cyclops: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man * 3: The 'unread' Homer: Derek Walcott's Omeros and The Odyssey: A Stage Version * 4: A Deep South Odyssey: Jon Amiel's Sommersby * 5: Cross-Cultural Nostoi: Wilson Harris' The Mask of the Beggar * 6: South African Penelopes: Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela * Coda: New Directions: Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts * Conclusion: Rewriting Odysseys * Appendix: Interview with Jatinder Verma * Bibliography * Index
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