African Athena : new agendas / edited by Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K. Bhambra, and Tessa Roynon.

Other author Orrells, Daniel.
Other author Bhambra, Gurminder K.
Other author Roynon, Tessa.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxiv, 469 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesClassical presences
Classical presences. ^A611052
Contents Believing in Ethiopians / Maghan Keita -- Black Apollo? : Martin Bernal's Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of Classical civilization, volume iii, and why race still matters / Patrice D. Rankine -- Greece, India, and race among the Victorians / Partha Mitter -- Black Minerva : antiquity in antebellum African history / Margaret Malamud -- Black Athena before Black Athena : the teaching of Greek and Latin at Black colleges and universities during the nineteenth century / Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor -- "Ethiopia shall stretch her hands unto God" : Garveyism, Rastafari, and antiquity / Robbie Shilliam -- Between Exodus and Egypt : Israel-Palestine and the break-up of the Black-Jewish alliance / Anna Hartnell -- Beyond culture wars : reconnecting African and Jewish diasporas in the past and the present / Toby Green -- Egyptian Athena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa : Martin Bernal and contemporary African historical thought / Stephen Howe -- The afterlives of Black Athena / Robert J.C. Young -- In the house of Libya : a meditation / V.Y. Mudimbe -- Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity : the invention of the novel / Tim Whitmarsh -- The idea of Africa in Lucan / Paolo Asso -- Was Black beautiful in Vandal Africa? / John H. Starks, Jr. -- Identifying authority : Juan Latino, an African ex-slave, professor, and poet in sixteenth-century Granada / J. Mira Seo -- John Barclay's "Camella" poems : ideas of race, beauty, and ugliness in Renaissance Latin verse / John T. Gilmore -- "Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown" : Gerald Massey and late-Victorian Afrocentrism / Brian H. Murray -- "Not Equatorial Black, not Mediterranean white" : Denis Williams's Other leopards / John Thieme -- Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy : performing politics / Astrid Van Weyenberg -- Mythopoeia in the struggle against slavery, racism, and exclusive Afrocentrism / Edith Hall and Justine McConnell -- Dislocating Black classicism : classics and the Black diaspora in the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite / Emily Greenwood -- The Africanness of classicism in the work of Toni Morrison / Tessa Roynon -- Afterword / Martin Bernal.
Local noteLittle-305131061291W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [418]-461) and index.
ISBN9780199595006 (hbk.)
ISBN0199595003 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks CB245 .A327 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold