Critical ancient world studies : the case for forgetting Classics / edited by Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Umachandran, Mathura, editor.

Ward, Marchella, 1991- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Study and teaching.

Classical languages--Study and teaching.

Classical languages.

Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching.

Civilization, Classical.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Mathura Umachandran is a Tamil scholar from London, trained at Oxford and Princeton in classics. They teach ancient Greek at the University of Exeter and dream of ways of making more just knowledge. Marchella Ward (Chella) has been Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University since September 2022, when she left Oxford to go in search of a more egalitarian approach to the study of the ancient world. Before that she was the Tinsley Outreach Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford, where she split her time equally between postdoctoral research in classical reception and work to oppose the inequalities, inequities and biases that structure access to higher education. Her research has focused on disability justice and classical reception and on attempts to find non-hierarchical, non-hegemonic and non-linear ways to figure ancient influence. Her writing has appeared in the Classical Receptions Journal, the Classical Review, the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement and across various blogs and other open access platforms.

Summary:

"This volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern 'West'. Critical Ancient World Studies (CAWS) is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as 'classical studies' and / or 'Classics'. Although it seeks to reckon with the discipline's colonial history, it is not simply the application of decolonial theory, or the search to uncover subaltern narratives in a subject that has special relevance to the privileged and powerful. Rather, it dismantles the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging, and questions the categories, ideas, themes, narratives, and epistemological structures that have been deemed objective and essential within the inherited discipline of 'Classics'. The contributions in this book, by an international group of researchers, offer a variety of situated, embodied perspectives on the question of how to imagine a more critical discipline, rather than a unified single view. The volume is divided into four parts: Critical Epistemologies, Critical Philologies, Critical Time and Critical Space, and Critical Approaches, and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation. Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics is a must-read for scholars and practitioners teaching in the field of classical studies, and the breadth of examples also make it an invaluable resource for anyone working on the ancient world within other disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward

Critical Muslim studies and the remaking of the (ancient) world / S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil

Reading for diasporic experience in the Delian Serapeia / Helen Wong

Recentering Africa in the study of ancient philosophy : the legacy of Egyptian philosophy / Nicholas Chukwudike Anakuwe

Epistemic injustice in the Classics classroom / Ashley Lance

Comparative philology and critical ancient world studies / Krishnan Ram-Prasad

Forging the anti-lexicon with Hephaestus / Hannah Silverblank

Sappho's body as archive : towards a deep lez philology / Ella Haselswerdt

Colonial cartography and the classical imagination : mapping critique and dreaming ancient worlds / Mathura Umachandran

Away from 'civilizational' heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean : embracing classical and Islamic cultural co-presences and simultaneous histories at the Parthenon and Ayasofya / Lylaah L. Bhalerao

Queer time, Crip time, woman time, sick time, sleepy time, Muslim time... remaking temporality beyond 'the Classical' / Marchella Ward

'A loss of faith brings vertigo' : Black lives, the Classics and ancient Mediterranean politics / Patrice Rankine

Critical reception studies : the white feminism of feminist reception scholarship / Holly Ranger

The anti-radical classicism of Karl Marx's dissertation / Kiran Pizarro Mansukhani

In the jaws of CAWS : a response / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on April 2, 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Critical ancient world studies

ISBN:

9781003222637

1003222633

9781003827368

1003827365

1003827403

9781003827405

OCLC:

1410823149

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access