Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson

Crossroads Black Aegean Clpr C

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. The authors ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle are so often adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9780199217182
• ISBN-10: 0199217181
• Artikelnr.: 23089896

Autorenporträt

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Reading. Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Answering Another Sphinx
1: Intersections and Networks
2: Back to the Motherland: Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame
3: Oedipus Rebound: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth
4: The City on the Edge: Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus
5: The Wine-Dark Caribbean? Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice and Derek Walcott's Omeros
6: No Man's Island: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
7: History Sisters: Femi Osofisan's Tegonni: An African Antigone