Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Ancient & Classical, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: ISBN: 9780191615474
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: July 29, 2010
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780191615474
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: July 29, 2010
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

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Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

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