{"product_id":"crossroads-black-aegean-clpr-c-9780199217182","title":"Crossroads Black Aegean Clpr C","description":"\u003cem\u003eCrossroads in the Black Aegean\u003c\/em\u003e 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. Capitalizing on classical reception studies, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature, \u003cem\u003eCrossroads in the Black Aegean\u003c\/em\u003e co-ordinates theory and theatre. It crucially investigates how the plays engage with the 'Western canon', and shows how they use their self-consciously literary status to assert, ironize, and challenge their own place, in relation both to that tradition and to alternative African models of cultural transmission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 6.47w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199217182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Goff is Professor of Classics, Department of Classics, University of Reading. \u003cbr\u003eMichael Simpson is Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932121809011,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_74cf32a8-93c4-4001-bf38-5523715c8190.jpg?v=1647790669","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/crossroads-black-aegean-clpr-c-9780199217182","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}