Lorna Hardwick: Introduction
1. Case Studies
Felix Budelmann: Trojan Women in Yorubaland: Femi Osofisan's Women
of Owu
Barbara Goff: Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonial
in Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan
James Gibbs: Antigone and her African Sisters: West African
Versions of a Greek Original
John Djisenu: Cross-Cultural Bonds Between Ancient Greece and
Africa: Implications for Contemporary Staging Practices
Michael Simpson: The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are
Not to Blame
Elke Steinmeyer: Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of
Paradise
Jessie Maritz: Sculpture at Heroes' Acre, Harare, Zimbabwe:
Classical Influences?
2. Encounter and New Traditions
Richard Evans: Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa:
The Voortrekker Monument's Classical Heritage
Katharine Burkitt: Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial
Verse-Novel as Post-Epic
Cashman Kerr Prince: A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's
Post-Colonial Philology
Emily Greenwood: Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in
the English-Speaking Caribbean
Rush Rehm: `If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in
Sophocles' Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
Stephen E. Wilmer: Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone:
Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes
3. Challenging Theory: Framing Further Questions
Freddy Decreus: `The same kind of smile': About the `Use and Abuse'
of Theory in Constructing the Classical Tradition
Michiel Leezenberg: From the Peloponnesian War to the Iraq War: A
Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy
Harish Trivedi: Western Classics, Indian Classics: Postcolonial
Contestations
Lorna Hardwick: Shades of Multilingualism and Multivocalism in
Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-Colonial Contexts
Ika Willis: The Empire Never Ended
David Richards: Another Architecture
Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University. Carol Gillespie is Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University.
A thoughtful contribution.
*Victoria Maul, Times Literary Supplement*
This volume will be indispensable to anyone working in the field of
the Classical Tradition or Classical Reception.
*Betine Van Zyl Smit, Acta Classica*
All nineteen essays offer glimpses of a field in energetic flux.
The book is worth the plunge.
*Translation and Literature*
an important indication of the newly prominent place of reception
studies in the field of classics and also an interesting barometer
of the current state of such studies.
*Rachel D. Friedman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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