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Zusatztext Greenwood writes with intelligence and passion. She has produced an excellent book, which will benefit scholars of the reception of the Classics, of Caribbean literature in English, as well as scholars interested in postcolonialism and world literature in general. Informationen zum Autor Emily Greenwood is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. Klappentext Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assume an antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of empire, and Caribbean literature. While acknowledging this imperial and colonial backstory, Greenwood argues that Caribbean writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully appropriated Classics and adapted it to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive, regional tradition. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully adapted Classics to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Goodbye to Hellas 1: An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean 2: Classics as School of Empire 3: Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature 4: The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy 5: Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon ...
