CLASSICS IN POST-COLONIAL WORLDS Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 2007

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Year of publication

2007

Author

Hardwick, Lorna & Carol Gillespie (Eds. )

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Keyword

Classical Greek & Roman Colonialism

Cover description

Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0199296103

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Very light shelfwear to book and DJ. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 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. ; Classical Presences; 420 pages