Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
Lorna Hardwick and Carol Gillespie
Abstract
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism, and then a rich field for creating cultural identities which blend the old and the new. Nobel prize winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms, while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs in order to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by schol ... More
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism, and then a rich field for creating cultural identities which blend the old and the new. Nobel prize winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms, while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs in order to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by scholars who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome, and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.
Keywords:
colonial empires,
classical material,
colonialism,
Seamus Heaney,
Africa,
resistance,
liberation,
Greece,
Rome,
public sculpture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199296101 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296101.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lorna Hardwick, editor
Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University
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Carol Gillespie, editor
Project Officer of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images Research Project at The Open University
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