Crossroads Black Aegean Clpr C

by Michael Simpson and Michael K. Simpson

Crossroads in the Black Aegean is a compendious, timely, and fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. It consists of detailed readings of six dramas and one epic poem, from different locations across the African diaspora. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson ask why the plays of Sophocles' Theban Cycle figure so prominently among the tragedies adapted by dramatists of African descent, and how plays that dilate on the power of the past,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199217181
• ISBN13: 9780199217182
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"