Goff Barbara, Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora (Repost)
Goff Barbara, Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora
ISBN: 0199217181 | edition 2007 | PDF | 414 pages | 3 mb
ISBN: 0199217181 | edition 2007 | PDF | 414 pages | 3 mb
Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regressive obsession of Antigone, can articulate the postcolonial moment.