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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199595003
ISBN-139780199595006
eBay Product ID (ePID)109254634
Product Key Features
Number of Pages486 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAfrican Athena : New Agendas
SubjectAncient / General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2011
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Social Science, History
AuthorGurminder K. Bhambra
SeriesClassical Presences Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight25.7 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.8 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"African Athena evokes with a breath-taking scope of vision the different ways in which Black Athena has acted as a foundational text for those interested in teasing out the dynamics of cultural engagements between Europe and Africa in both antiquity and modernity. African Athena is a triumph and will serve as the starting point for research in the field for many years to come."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review, "African Athenaevokes with a breath-taking scope of vision the different ways in whichBlack Athenahas acted as a foundational text for those interested in teasing out the dynamics of cultural engagements between Europe and Africa in both antiquity and modernity.African Athenais a triumph and will serve as the starting point for research in the field for many years to come."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal938.0072
Table Of ContentIntroductionPart I: Myths and Historiographies, Ancient and Modern1. Believing in Ethiopians2. Black Apolloa Martin Bernal's The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume III and Why Race Still Matters?3. Greece, India and Race among the Victorians4. Black Minerva: Antiquity in antebellum African American history5. Black Athena before Black Athena: The Teaching of Greek and Latin at Black Colleges and Universities6. Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God: Garveyism, Rastafari and Antiquity7. Between Exodus and Egypt: Israel-Palestine and the break-up of the Black-Jewish Alliance8. Beyond Culture Wars: Reconnecting African and Jewish Diasporas in the Past and the Present9. Egyptian Athena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa: Martin Bernal and Contemporary African Historical Thought10. The After-lives of Black AthenaPart II: Classical Diaspora / Diasporic Classics11. In the House of Libya: A Meditation12. Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity: the invention of the novel13. The Idea of Africa in Lucan14. Was Black Beautiful in Vandal Africa?15. Identifying Authority: Juan Latino, an African Ex-Slave, Professor and Poet in Sixteenth-Century Granada16. John Barclay's Camella Poems: Ideas of Race, Beauty and Ugliness in Renaissance Latin Verse17. 'Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown': Gerald Massey and Late-Victorian Afrocentrism18. 'Not equatorial black, not Mediterranean white': Denis Williams Other Leopards19. Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy: Performing Politics20. Mythopoeia in the Struggle against Slavery, Racism, and Exclusive Afrocentrism21. Dislocating Black Classicism: Classics and the Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite22. The Africanness of Classicism in the Work of Toni MorrisonAfterwordConclusion
SynopsisThe appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production. African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection., African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present., The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena , the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production. African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present. Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.
LC Classification NumberDE8
