Classicisms in the Black Atlantic Hardback
Edited by Ian (Associate Professor, Department of History, Associate Professor, Department of History, Moyer, Adam (Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Greek and Latin, Honorary Research Fellow, De Lecznar, Heidi (Lecturer, Lecturer, University of Michigan) Morse
Part of the Classical Presences series
Hardback
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The historical and cultural space of the Black Atlantic - a diasporic world of forced and voluntary migrations - has long provided fertile ground for the construction and reconstruction of new forms of classicism.
From the aftermath of slavery up to the present day, black authors, intellectuals, and artists in the Atlantic world have shaped and reshaped the cultural legacies of classical antiquity in a rich variety of ways in order to represent their identities and experiences and reflect on modern conceptions of race, nation, and identity.
The studies presented in this volume range across the Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone worlds, including literary studies of authors such as Derek Walcott, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Junot Díaz, biographical and historical studies, and explorations of race and classicism in the visual arts.
They offer reflections on the place of classicism in contemporary conflicts and debates over race and racism, and on the intersections between classicism, race, gender, and social status, demonstrating how the legacies of ancient Greece and Rome have been used to buttress racial hierarchies, but also to challenge racism and Eurocentric reconstructions of antiquity.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages, 14 black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/01/2020
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- ISBN:9780198814122
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:354 pages, 14 black-and-white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:16/01/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198814122
