Crossroads in the Black Aegean : Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora

by: Goff, B. Simpson, M.

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Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
Classical Presences
A fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. The authors ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle are so often adapted by ...

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Co-ordinates insights from relevant disciplines such as classical reception, postcolonial studies , African studies, and comparative literature.
Theory and practice are aligned in detailed readings of six plays and one epic poem, and in the development of new theoretical apparatus in classical reception studies.
Lucid exposition of complex interdisciplinary material, especially in two opening chapters that orient readers to the goals and critical terms of the book.

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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies 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. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission.

Table of Contents
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

Crossroads in the Black Aegean : Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora

by: Goff, B. Simpson, M.

• ISBN-13: 9780199217182 / 978-0-19-921718-2
• ISBN-03: 0199217181 / 0-19-921718-1
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

Price: 99,00 EURO

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