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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
An exploration of the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully adapted Classics to the cultural context...
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An exploration of the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean. Emily Greenwood argues that writers such as Kamau Brathwaite, C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott have successfully adapted Classics to the cultural context of the Caribbean, creating a distinctive tradition. Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Goodbye to Hellas -- Overview of Chapters -- 1 An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean -- Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Traveller's Tree -- Towards a New World Odyssey -- Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcott's Dialogue with Modern Greece -- 2 Classics as School of Empire -- Classics and the Educational Elite -- Contesting the Curriculum -- Afro-Romans and Imperial Redistribution -- C. L. R. James: Finding one's Own Way in Classics -- Conclusion -- 3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature -- Translating Latin Badly -- Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe (2002) -- The Postcolonial Virgil in V. S. Naipaul -- Derek Walcott: Translating Empire -- Conclusion -- 4 The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy -- Athens in Trinidad I: C. L. R. James -- Athens in Trinidad II: Eric Williams -- Conclusion -- 5 Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon -- The Unstable Canon: A Tale of Two Helens -- Classics of National Literature? -- Postcolonial Classics: Writing from Rome in Brathwaite's X/Self -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
