Receptions of the Classics in the African Diaspora of the Hispanophone and Lusophone Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Atlantis Otherwise
Redaktion: Rizo, Elisa; Henry, Madeleine M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498530217
• Artikelnr.: 45987963

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elisa Rizo and Madeleine M. Henry - Contributions by Cesar Augusto Baldi; Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves; Guilherme Gontijo Flores; Madeleine M. Henry; Andrea Kouklanakis; John T. Maddox IV and Elisa Rizo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, by Madeleine Henry and Elia Rizo Chapter 1: From Cultural
Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Cases Studies of Receptions of
the Classical Tradition in Brazil, by Andrea Kouklanakis Chapter 2: Black
Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play, by
Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores Chapter 3:
Decolonizing Greek Theater: Black Experimental Theater, by César Augusto
Baldi Chapter 4: Changó el gran putas: A Drama of Memory, by John Maddo
Chapter 5: Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella's Caronte
Liberado, by Madeleine Henry Chapter 6: Glocalizing Democracy through a
Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of
Morgades' Antígona, by Elisa Rizo About the Contributors