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Subject(s)

• Classical literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Classical literature—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Classical languages—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Civilization, Classical—Study and teaching [Browse]

Editor

• Umachandran, Mathura [Browse]
• Ward, Marchella, 1991- [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781032120126
• 9781032120119 ((paperback))
• 1032120118
• 1032120126

LCCN

2023034154

OCLC

1391212501

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