Afro-greeks: dialogues between anglophone caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century

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 successfully adapted Classics to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive tradition. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-957524-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 28/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés