Receptions Of The Classics In The African Diaspora Of The Hispanophone And Lusophone Worlds Atlantis Otherwise Elisa Rizo Madeleine M Henry Cesar Augusto Baldi Rodrigo Tadeu Gonalves Guilherme Gontijo Flores Andrea Kouklanakis John T Maddox Iv John T Maddox Iv Elisa Rizo by Elisa Rizo; Madeleine M. Henry; Cesar Augusto Baldi; Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves; Guilherme Gontijo Flores; Andrea Kouklanakis; John T. Maddox Iv; John T. Maddox Iv; Elisa Rizo 9781498530217, 1498530214 instant download after payment.

Atlantis Otherwise expands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship. The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.