Crossroads in the Black Aegean
Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 November 2007
- ISBN 9780199217182
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages414 pages
- Size 242x163x27 mm
- Weight 773 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
This is a fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. The authors ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle are so often adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment.
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Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, Crossroads in the Black Aegean co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, and that of the Greek originals, in relation to that tradition. Beyond these oedipal reflexes, the adaptations offer alternative African models of cultural transmission.
In its sophisticated readings of six dramas and one epic poem from across the African diaspora, this book is a profound meditation upon the inheritance of civilization and the politics of cultural transmission.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Answering Another Sphinx
Intersections and Networks
Back to the Motherland: Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame
Oedipus Rebound: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth
The City on the Edge: Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus
The Wine-Dark Caribbean? Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice and Derek Walcott's Omeros
No Man's Island: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
History Sisters: Femi Osofisan's Tegonni: An African Antigone
