Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie
Table of Contents
Introduction, Lorna Hardwick
1. Case Studies
Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu, Felix Budelmann
Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan, Barbara Goff
Antigone and her African Sisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original, James Gibbs
Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices, John Djisenu
The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame, Michael Simpson
Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise, Elke Steinmeyer
Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences?, Jessie Maritz
2. Encounter and New Traditions
Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage, Richard Evans
Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel as Post-Epic, Katharine Burkitt
A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology, Cashman Kerr Prince
Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-Speaking Caribbean, Emily Greenwood
`If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island, Rush Rehm
Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes, Stephen E. Wilmer
3. Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions
`The same kind of smile': About the `Use and Abuse' of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition, Freddy Decreus
From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy, Michiel Leezenberg
Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations, Harish Trivedi
Shades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts, Lorna Hardwick
The Empire Never Ended, Ika Willis
Another Architecture, David Richards