After troy / Taban Lo Liyong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liyong, Taban lo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Epic poetry, African.

Homer. Iliad--Poetry.

Homer.

Aeschylus. Oresteia--Poetry.

Aeschylus.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 21 cm

Distribution:

[Durban, South Africa] : University of KwaZula-Natal Press

Place of Publication:

[Grahamstown, South Africa] : Deep South, [2021]

Summary:

"After troy, Taban lo Liyong's booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus's Oresteia. Its focus is the homecoming from the Trojan war of two hero-kings, Odysseus and Agamemnon. Lo Liyong recreates their thoughts and speech, adding dialogue from other characters, most of them women, who are not given a voice in the original stories. after troy is also a philosophical enquiry into retribution and justice."-- Back cover

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Book One The Ithaca Trilogy

I. The Penelopey

Circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus

II. The Odyssiod

i. Gaunt and bloody handed odysseus cogitates by the family fire

ii. odysseus' double prepares for his first inland odyssey

III. The Telemachy

i. Youthful telemachus carves out a role for himself

ii. telemachus' double takes an extended aegean rumination

iii. Nights of pubescent telemachus

Book Two Trials and tribulations in the house of atreus

I. helen: the pregnant egg of menelaus

II. cassandra: the unbelievable prophet of apollo

i. Outside the gate of troy

ii. Outside the lion gate of mycenae

III. agamemnon: the sacker of troy dies in a mycenaean bathtub

IV. clytemnestra: the stay-at-home housewife who kills the great general

V. orestes

i. The prince who defeated the goddesses

ii. The student of apollo who re-read the legends.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

1928476341

9781928476344

OCLC:

1227269643

Publisher Number:

99992179337