The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory

Herausgeber: Akrigg, Ben; Blouin, Katherine

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics, utilizing a wide body of case-studies and providing avenues for future research and discussion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 24
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9780367555481
• ISBN-10: 0367555484
• Artikelnr.: 70142386

Autorenporträt

Katherine Blouin is a twelfth generation French settler born and raised in Québec City. She is currently Associate Professor of History and Classics at the University of Toronto and the lead editor of Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Le conflit judéo-alexandrin de 38-41: l'identité juive à l'épreuve (2005), Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), as well as The Nile Delta: Histories from Antiquity to the Modern Period (editor, 2024). She is currently working on a book project entitled Inventing Alexandria. Ben Akrigg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Population and Economy in Classical Athens (CUP 2019) and co-editor of Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama (CUP 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction, Katherine Blouin and Ben Akrigg; 2. Edward Said's
Orientalism: a reappraisal, Phiroze Vasunia; 3. Classics at the
borderlands: decolonising with Gloria Anzaldúa, Mathura Umachandran; 4.
Classics between epistemicides and hauntologies: a Caribbean reading, D.
Padilla Peralta; 5. Placefulness and classical topoi in the writing of
Ishion Hutchinson, Sasha-Mae Eccleston; 6. Indigenous writers of North
America and Greco-Roman antiquity: postcolonialism without the post?,
Craig Williams; 7. The ancient past in the historical present: postcolonial
theory and ancient Indian history, Mekhola Gomes; 8. Subalternity in the
Roman metropole, Amy Richlin; 9. Rape and race: intersectional perspectives
on Aeschylus' Suppliants, with a coda on Charles Mee's Big Love, Nancy
Sorkin Rabinowitz; 10. Resistant receptions: a postcolonial approach to
receptions of Greek tragedy, Amy Pistone; 11. "Two-Eyed Seeing" and
teaching classical literature, Aven McMaster; 12. Postcolonial feminisms
and colonial encounters in the Hellenistic period, Patricia Eunji Kim; 13.
Periplus, periplum, periphery: how to map classics from the edges, Grant
Parker; 14. Time and the other Greeks, Dimitri Nakassis; 15. Our terms and
theirs: some reflections on recent approaches to Greek religion, Kenneth W.
Yu; 16. (Post-)colonialism and ancient magic, Korshi Dosoo; 17. Haec de
Africa. Rome's imagined Africa and the limits of fiction, Elena Giusti;
18. A colonialist trick of the eye: Valerius Maximus' Memorable Deeds and
Sayings as a tool of imperial education, Liz Gloyn; 19. "They look white,
but they're not": nationality, race, and classical tradition in Brazil,
Juliana Bastos Marques; 20. Res Diversissimas: a postcolonial reading of
Hannibal's reception, Dominic Machado; 21. "Perhaps it matters little to
what race Terence belonged": historicizing the life of Publius Terentius
Afer, Denise Eileen McCoskey; 22. Alexander the Great studies and Hellenism
in Uzbekistan: a postcolonial and decolonial discourse within a Central
Asian archaeology stalled between post-Soviet myths, centre-periphery
tensions, and non-recognition of Russian colonialism, Svetlana Gorshenina
and Claude Rapin; 23. Locating Indo-Iranian borderlands between Central
Asia and South Asia: a reading of the past connected history (third century
BCE to sixth century CE), Suchandra Ghosh; 24. "Ê Faraó!": the reception of
ancient Egypt in Brazilian carnival, Franziska Naether; 25. The long,
winding, and bumpy road: seeing museum antiquities as colonial legavies,
Elizabeth Marlowe; 26. Thucydides on colonialism and hegemonic discourse,
Neville Morley; 27. Forgery as decolonisation: Constantine Simonides in
Liverpool, Rachel Yuen-Collingridge; 28. Those who tell their stories never
die: on being an 'Indigenous' Egyptian researcher in the current increasing
'local' inclusion turn, Heba Abd el Gawad; 29. Troubled archive:
(de)coloniality and Egypt's papyri, Usama Ali Gad; 30. The materiality of
papyri and the decolonization of Papyrology, Myrto Malouta; 31. "Many
strange and impossible views": the curious career of Frederic Cope
Whitehouse (1842-1911), Brendan Haug; 32. Teaching classics in South
Africa-a hopeful act: reflections on a decolonising teaching experience,
Amy L. Daniels; 33. Colonizing the past: the case of Argos in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Jonathan M. Hall; 34.
Examinations at the founding of the University of Toronto: the place of
classics in the institutionalisation of Canadian education, Alison
Cleverley; 35. "The Ancient Romans conquered all Syria and Egypt":
encounters between Arabic and the Classics in the nineteenth century,
Rachel Mairs; 36. Claiming authority: the Antiquities Act and the legacy of
classical archaeology in America, Christine Johnston; 37. Where Next?,
Hardeep Singh Dhindsa; 38. Where Next? 2: reflections on my struggle with
theory, Shelley P. Haley; 39. Where Next? 3, Barbara Goff.