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Zusatztext exemplary work... The authors explore in detail why the particular myths of their title have been taken up in postcolonial contexts Informationen zum Autor Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Reading.Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Answering Another Sphinx 1: Intersections and Networks 2: Back to the Motherland: Ola Rotimi's The Gods are Not to Blame 3: Oedipus Rebound: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth 4: The City on the Edge: Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus 5: The Wine-Dark Caribbean? Kamau Brathwaite's Odale's Choice and Derek Walcott's Omeros 6: No Man's Island: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island 7: History Sisters: Femi Osofisan's Tegonni: An African Antigone
