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African Athena - New Agendas (Hardcover)
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African Athena - New Agendas (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian
Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and
controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed
genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the
influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the
making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals'
assumptions about the nature of ancient history.
The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the
Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African
people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin
classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena,
the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora
from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history
and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in
European and American understandings of history, and in classical,
European, American and Caribbean literary production.
African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary
writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American
constructions of the classical past and its influence on the
present.
Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.
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