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Afro-Greeks : dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century

Author: Emily Greenwood
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series: Classical presences
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : ReprView all editions and formats
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An exploration of the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Emily Greenwood
ISBN: 9780199575244 019957524X
OCLC Number: 813277660
Description: 298 Seiten.
Contents: Introduction: Goodbye to Hellas ; 1. An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean ; 2. Classics as School of Empire ; 3. Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature ; 4. The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy ; 5. Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon
Series Title: Classical presences
Responsibility: Emily Greenwood.

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