Islands in the Air: Travelling by Plane in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Neigh
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Middle Passages

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-56
Author(s):  
Emily Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Black Aesthetic ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean Literature

This chapter analyzes uses of Greek and Roman classical texts as mediating passages in anglophone Caribbean literature of the Middle Passage. In Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, the classics are remediated and reclaimed as part of the project of framing the ineffable epic of the bones of those killed in the crossing. Walcott’s and Philip’s use of multilayered Latin etymologies and their subversive signifying of classical texts exemplify a subversive, anagrammatic philology explored in the radical black aesthetic theories of Fred Moten and Christina Sharpe. In the process, both authors explore the potential of Greek and Roman classical texts as a source for mediating modern historical memory in the Caribbean.

Vorlagen und Nachrichten

Gnomon ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (8) ◽  
pp. 748-768
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean ◽  
Anglophone Caribbean Literature

M. Weißenberger: Gunther Martin: Divine Talk. Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes Ch. Schulze: Liliane Bodson, L’interprétation des noms grecs et latins d’animaux illustrée par le cas du zoonyme sêps-seps T. Gazzarri: La Clemenza, Apocolocyntosis, Epigrammi, Frammenti di Lucio Anneo Seneca. A cura di Luciano de Biasi, Anna Maria Fer-rero, Ermanno Malaspina e Dionigi Vottero. T. Döring: Emily Greenwood, Afro-Greeks. Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century M. Heil: Emmanuel Lyasse, Le Principat et son fondateur. L’utilisation de la référence à Auguste de Tibère à Trajan K. Ruffing: Dennis P. Kehoe, Law and Rural Economy in the Roman Empire H.-J. Beste: Alexander Sokolicek, Diateichismata. Zu dem Phänomen innerer Befestigungsmauern im griechischen Städtebau L. Mrozewicz: Lyudmil F. Vagalinski, Kryv i zrelišta. Sportni i gladiatorski igri w elinističeska i rimska Trakija. Blood and entertainments. Sports and gladiatorial games in Hellenistic and Roman Thrace D. Nörr: Giuliano Crifò † Personalien

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