Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds

By Carol Gillespie and Lorna Hardwick

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591326
• ISBN13: 9780199591329
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"