Receptions of the classics in the African diaspora of the hispanophone and lusophone worlds : Atlantis otherwise / edited by Elisa Rizo and Madeleine M. Henry
Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and evolutions from New World slaving
Contents
From cultural appropriation to historical emendation: two cases studies of receptions of the classical tradition in Brazil / by Andrea Kouklanakis -- Black angel: classical myth, race and desire in a Brazilian modernist play / by Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores -- Decolonizing Greek theater: black experimental theater / by César Augusto Baldi -- Changó el gran putas: a drama of memory / by John Maddox -- Resurrection of the dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella's Caronte liberado / by Madeleine Henry -- Glocalizing democracy through a reception of the classics in equatorial Guinean theatre: the case of Morgades' Antígona / by Elisa Rizo
Summary
This collection responds to the call within the discipline of classical receptions to foster dialogue across cultures and geographies to show the results of the colonially framed traditional approach to classical studies. It also responds to an important development in Hispanic and Lusophone studies: a turn to relational approaches such as transatlantic, transnational, and global analyses
