Crossroads in the Black Aegean Oedipus, Antigone, and dramas of the African diaspora
A study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy, this title asks 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 can articulate the postcolonial moment
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007, 2007
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| Series: | Classical presences / Classical presences
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | A study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy, this title asks 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 can articulate the postcolonial moment |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 401 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780191712388 |