, to see if you have full access to this publication.
Edited Book No access
Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds
Atlantis Otherwise
Editors:
|
Publisher:
2016
Summary
Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship.
The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.
Search publication
Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3020-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3021-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
122
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction. Atlantis Otherwise No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter One. From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Case Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil No access Pages 9 - 30
Chapter Two. Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race, and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play No access Pages 31 - 42
Chapter Three. Decolonizing Greek Theatre: Black Experimental Theatre No access Pages 43 - 60
Chapter Four. Changó el Gran Putas: A Drama of Memory No access Pages 61 - 80
Chapter Five. Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella’s Caronte Liberado No access Pages 81 - 90
Chapter Six. Glocalizing Democracy through a Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of Morgades’s Antígona No access Pages 91 - 110
