(u)Mzantsi Classics Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa

Though Graeco-Roman antiquity ('classics') has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent's decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Masters, Samantha, editor (editor), Nzungu, Imkhitha, editor, Parker, Grant, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : African Minds 2022.
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  • 1 Nothing about us? Reflections on classics insouthern Africa (Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu and Grant Parker)I FIRST DIALOGUE: ON BAGGAGE2 Classical imagery and policing the African body (Ian Glenn)3 Classics and colonial administration in Southern Rhodesia(Obert Mlambo and John Douglas McClymont)4 Conversation with Christiaan Bronkhorst II SECOND DIALOGUE: ON INTERSECTING IDENTITIES5 Classics for the third millennium: African options afterThe Fall (Jo-Marie Claassen)6 The liberatory potential of Latin studies: Stellenbosch University'sLatin Project (ReshardKolabhai and Shani Viljoen)7 Conversation with Chanté Bhugwanth III THIRD DIALOGUE:ON CLASSICS AND THE CANON8 Responses tocrisis: Cicero in Zimbabwe (Madhlozi Moyo)9 Rethinking the commemorative landscape in South Africa afterThe Fall: A pedagogical case study (Samantha Masters)10 Conversation with Amy Daniels IV FOURTH DIALOGUE: FROM RECEPTION TO RE-IMAGINATION11 African port cities and the classics (Carla Bocchetti)12 'Wilder than Polyphemus': Towards a tragic poetics of thepost-colonial consumption of symbols (David van Schoor)13 Conversation with Nuraan Essop14 Ovid in the time of statues (Grant Parker).