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Afro-Greeks - Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Afro-Greeks - Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, New)
Series: Classical Presences
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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 the importance of this
imperial context, Greenwood argues that Caribbean appropriations of
Classics played an important role in formulating original,
anti-colonial and anti-imperial criticism in Anglophone Caribbean
fiction. Afro-Greeks reveals how, in the twentieth century, two
generations of Caribbean writers, including Kamau Brathwaite,
Austin Clarke, John Figueroa, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, Derek
Walcott and Eric Williams, created a distinctive, regional
counter-tradition of reading Greco-Roman Classics.
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