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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds - Hardwick, Lorna (Editor), and Gillespie, Carol (Editor)
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Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These ...

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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds 2010, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199591329

Trade paperback

Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds 2007, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199296101

Hardcover