African Athena: New Agendas (Classical Presences) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for African Athena African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 17 December 2011
- Format: Hardback 496 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Literary Studies: General | Black & Asian Studies | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780199595006 ISBN 10: 0199595003
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Full description for African Athena
The appearance of Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. The transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In African Athena, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production. African Athena examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present. Martin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.
