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Author Liyong, Taban lo, author.

Title After Troy / Taban Lo Liyong
Published [South Africa] : Deep South, [2021]

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Summary After troy, Taban lo Liyong's booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus's Oresteia. Its focus is the homecoming from the Trojan war of two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon. Lo Liyong recreates their thoughts and speech, adding dialogue from other characters, most of them women, who are not given a voice in the original stories. after troy is also a philosophical enquiry into retribution and justice
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2021)
Subject Homer. Iliad -- Poetry
Aeschylus. Oresteia -- Poetry
SUBJECT Oresteia (Aeschylus) fast
Iliad (Homer) fast
Subject Women -- Poetry
Epic poetry, African.
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POETRY / African.
Women
Epic poetry, African
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 192847635X
9781928476351