The Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory / edited by Ben Akrigg and Katherine Blouin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akrigg, Ben, editor.

Blouin, Katherine, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks on museums, galleries and heritage.

Routledge Handbooks of Classics and Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical.

Classical literature.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (701 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This handbook explores the ways in which histories of colonialism and postcolonial thought and theory cast light on our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world and the discipline of Classics, utilizing a wide body of case-studies and providing avenues for future research and discussion.

Contents:

Introduction / Katherine Blouin and Ben Akrigg

Orientalism reconsidered / Phiroze Vasunia

Classics at the borderlands : decolonizing 'antiquity' with Gloria Anzaldua / Mathura Umachandran

Classics between epistemicides and hauntologies : a Caribbean reading / Daniel Padilla Peralta

Placefulness, petrifaction, and classical topoi in the writing of Ishion Hutchinson / Sasha-Mae Eccleston

Indigenous writers of North America and Greco-Roman antiquity : postcolonialism without the post? / Craig Williams

The ancient past in the historical present : postcolonial theory and ancient Indian history / Mekhola Gomes

Subalternity in the Roman metropole / Amy Richlin

Rape and race : intersectional perspectives on Aeschylus' Suppliants, with a coda on Charles Mee's Big love / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz

Resistant receptions : a postcolonial approach to receptions of Greek tragedy / Amy Pistone

"Two eyed seeing" and teaching classical literature / Aven McMaster

Postcolonial feminisms and colonial encounters in the Hellenistic period / Patricia Kim

Periplus, periplum, periphery : how to map classics from the edges / Grant Parker

Time and the other Greeks / Dimitri Nakassis

Our terms and theirs : some reflections on recent approaches to Greek religion / Kenneth Yu

(Post-)colonialism and ancient magic / Korshi Dosoo

Haec de Africa : Rome's imagined Africa and the limits of fiction / Elena Giusti

A colonialist trick of the eye : Valerius Maximus' Memorable deeds and sayings as a tool of imperial education / Liz Gloyn

"They look white, but they're not" : nationality, race, and classical tradition in Brazil / Juliana Bastos Marques

Res diversissimas : a postcolonial reading of Hannibal's Reception / Dominic Machado

"Perhaps it matters little to what race Terence belongs" : historicizing the Life of Publius Terentius Afer / Denise Eileen McCoskey

Alexander the Great studies and Hellenism in Uzbekistan : a postcolonial and decolonial discourse within a Central Asian archaeology stalled between post Soviet myths, centre-periphery tensions, and non-recognition of Russian colonialism / Svetlana Gorshenina and Claude Rapin

Locating Indo-Iranian borderlands between Central Asia and South Asia : a reading of the past connected history (third century BCE to sixth century CE) / Suchandra Ghosh

"Ê Faraó!" : the reception of ancient Egypt in Brazilian carnival / Franziska Naether

How to say nothing : a case study of the museum labels on some looted bronzes / Elizabeth Marlowe

Thucydides on colonialism & hegemonic discourse / Neville Morley

Forgery as decolonisation : Constantine Simonides in Liverpool / Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

"Aren't we their children?" : a modern-Egypt inspired anti-colonial framework to classical archaeology / Heba Abd el Gawad

Troubled archive : (de)colonialism and Egypt's papyri / Usama Ali Gad

The materiality of papyri and the decolonization of papyrology / Myrto Malouta

"Many strange and impossible views" : the curious career of Frederic Cope Whitehouse (1842-1911) / Brendan Haug

Teaching classics in South Africa-a hopeful act : reflections on a decolonising teaching experience / Amy L. Daniels

Colonizing the past : the case of Argos in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Jonathan Hall

Examinations at the founding of the University of Toronto : the place of classics in the institutionalisation of Canadian education / Alison Cleverley

"The ancient Romans conquered all Syria and Egypt" : encounters between Arabic and the classics in the nineteenth century / Rachel Mairs

Claiming authority : the Antiquities Act and the legacy of classical archaeology in America / Christine Johnston

Where next? 1 / Hardeep Singh Dhindsa

Where next? 2 : reflections on my struggle with theory / Shelley Haley

Where Next? 3 / Barbara Goff.

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ISBN:

9781040022368

1040022367

9781040022405

1040022405

9781003096016

1003096018

OCLC:

1425815066