Full Description
Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship.
The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.
Contents
Introduction, by Madeleine Henry and Elia Rizo
Chapter 1: From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Cases Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil, by Andrea Kouklanakis
Chapter 2: Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play, by Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores
Chapter 3: Decolonizing Greek Theater: Black Experimental Theater, by César Augusto Baldi
Chapter 4: Changó el gran putas: A Drama of Memory, by John Maddo
Chapter 5: Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata Olivella's Caronte Liberado, by Madeleine Henry
Chapter 6: Glocalizing Democracy through a Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of Morgades' Antígona, by Elisa Rizo
About the Contributors
