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.
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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.
ISBN
9781040022368
1040022367
9781040022405
1040022405
9781003096016
1003096018
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