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Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms while public sculpture in southern Africa draws on Greek and Roman motifs to represent histories of African resistance and liberation. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars, who debate the relationship between the culture of Greece and Rome and the changes that have followed the end of colonial empires.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds
• Author: Hardwick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440
• EAN: 9780199591329
• ISBN: 0199591326
• ID: 04478153
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 546 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 142 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. July 2010

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