Title Afro-Greeks : dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century / Emily Greenwood

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) Series [Classical presences] Classical presences. Contents An accidental Homer : accidents of Homeric reception in the modern Caribbean -- Classics as school of empire -- Translatio studii et imperii : the manipulation of Latin in modern Caribbean literature -- The Athens of the Caribbean : Trinidadian models of Athenian democracy -- Caribbean classics and the postcolonial canon Summary "Afro-Greeks explores dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and the complex legacies of ancient Greece and Rome, from the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Classics still bears the negative associations of the colonial educational curriculum that was thrust upon the British West Indies with the Victorian triad of the three Cs (Cricket, Classics, and Christianity)." "In a study that embraces Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, and Eric Williams, Emily Greenwood traces a distinctive regional tradition of engaging with Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. She argues that, following on from C.L.R. James's revisionist approach to the history of ancient Greece, there has been a practice of reading the Classics for oneself in Anglophone Caribbean literature, a practice that has contributed to the larger project of the articulation of the Caribbean self. The writers whom she examines offer a strenuous critique of an exclusive, Western conception of Greco-Roman antiquity, often conducting this critique through literary subterfuge, playing on the colonial prejudice that Classics did not belong to them. Afro-Greeks examines both the terms of this critique, and the way in which these writers have made Classics theirs."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index Notes Print version record Subject Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism Caribbean literature (English) -- Greek influences Caribbean literature (English) -- Classical influences Mythology, Greek, in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. Caribbean literature (English) Mythology, Greek, in literature Literatur Rezeption Antike Anglophone Karibik Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191573477 0191573477 128330712X 9781283307123 9780191722189 0191722189

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