The Routledge handbook of classics, colonialism, and postcolonial theory / edited by Katherine Blouin and Ben Akrigg.

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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
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Katherine Blouin is a twelfth generation French settler born and raised in Qǔbec City. She is currently Associate Professor of History and Classics at the University of Toronto and the lead editor of Everyday Orientalism. Her publications include Le conflit juďo-alexandrin de 38-41: l'identiť juive ̉ l'̌preuve (2005), Triangular Landscapes: Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule (2014), as well as The Northern Land: Histories of the Ancient to Modern Nile Delta (editor, forthcoming in 2023). She is currently working on a book project entitled Inventing Alexandria. Ben Akrigg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Population and Economy in Classical Athens (CUP 2019) and co-editor of Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama (CUP 2013).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
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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.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of classics, colonialism, and postcolonial theory
  • Classics, colonialism, and postcolonial theory
ISBN
  • 9781003096016 (electronic book)
  • 1003096018 (electronic book)
  • 9781040022405 (electronic book)
  • 1040022405 (electronic book)
  • 9781040022368 (electronic book)
  • 1040022367 (electronic book)
LCCN
2023054791
OCLC
1425815066
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781003096016
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