African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present. The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intensedebate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history.The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, andthe Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and Americanunderstandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbeanliterary production.African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers whocontested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection. INDICE: Introduction Part I: Myths and Historiographies, Ancient and Modern Believing in Ethiopians Black Apolloa Martin Bernal's The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume III and Why Race Still Matters? Greece, Indiaand Race among the Victorians Black Minerva: Antiquity in antebellum African American history Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Black Colleges and Universities Ethiopia shall stretch forth her handsunto God: Garveyism, Rastafari and Antiquity Between Exodus and Egypt: Israel-Palestine and the break-up of the Black-Jewish Alliance Beyond Culture Wars: Reconnecting African and Jewish Diasporas in the Past and the Present EgyptianAthena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa: Martin Bernal and Contemporary African Historical Thought The After-lives of Black Athena Part II: Classical Diaspora / Diasporic Classics In the House of Libya: A Meditation Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity: the invention of the novel The Idea of Africa in Lucan Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa? Identifying Authority: Juan Latino, an African Ex-Slave, Professor and Poet in Sixteenth-Century Granada John Barclay's Camella Poems: Ideas of Race, Beauty and Ugliness in Renaissance Latin Verse 'Layin Egypt's lap each borrowed crown': Gerald Massey and Late-Victorian Afrocentrism 'Not equatorial black, not Mediterranean white': Denis Williams Other Leopards Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy: Performing Politics Mythopoeia in the Struggle against Slavery, Racism, and Exclusive Afrocentrism Dislocating Black Classicism: Classics and the Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Aim Csaire and Kamau Brathwaite The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni Morrison Afterword Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959500-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 27/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés