Classicisms in the Black Atlantic

by Moyer, Ian; Lecznar, Adam; Morse, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9780198814122
• ISBN10: 0198814127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-03-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ian Moyer, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan,Adam Lecznar, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London,Heidi Morse, Lecturer, University of Michigan

Ian Moyer is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism (CUP, 2011), as well as articles on cultural and intellectual interactions between ancient Greece and Egypt. His other interests include ancient religion and magic, as well as modern receptions of ancient civilizations and cultures. In his current research, he is examining the gates and forecourt areas of Egyptian temples in the Ptolemaic period as sites of cultural and political translation.

Adam Lecznar is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in UCL's Department of Greek and Latin. His research interests range across classical reception studies and he has published on Friedrich Nietzsche's reception of Plato and Prometheus, the classicism of James Joyce, and the reception of Hesiod. He has taught at UCL, Bristol, Royal Holloway, and Oxford since the submission of his doctorate on Wole Soyinka's reception of Euripides' Bacchae in 2013, and is currently completing a monograph entitled Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought.

Heidi Morse is a Lecturer at the University of Michigan, where she was a 2014-2016 Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Her book-in-progress, titled Teaching and Testifying: Black Women's American Classicism, theorizes a new cultural history of the relationship between classical rhetoric and race in nineteenth-century America. She has also authored articles on American women's poetry, slave narratives, and African American print and visual culture which have appeared or are forthcoming in venues including Comparative Literature, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Contributors
0. Introduction, Ian Moyer, Adam Lecznar, and Heidi Morse
Part I: Wakes
1. Middle Passages: Mediating Classics and Radical Philology in Marlene NourbeSe Philip and Derek Walcott, Emily Greenwood
2. "Nero, the mustard!" The Ironies of Classical Slave Names in the British Caribbean, Margaret Williamson
3. Athens and Sparta of the New World: The Classical Passions of Santo Domingo, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Part II: Journeys
4. In Search of Henry Alexander Saturnin Hartley, Black Classicist, Clergyman, and Physician, Michele Valerie Ronnick
5. Roman Studios: The Black Woman Artist in the Eternal City, from Edmonia Lewis to Carrie Mae Weems, Heidi Morse
6. Africana Andromeda: Contemporary Painting and the Classical Black Figure, Kimathi Donkor
Part III: Tales
7. The Tragedy of Aime Cesaire, Adam Lecznar
8. Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe: An Account of Roman London from the Black British Perspective, Tracey L. Walters
9. Myth and the Fantastic in the Work of Junot Diaz, Justine McConnell
10. Classics for All? Liberal Education and the Matter of Black Lives, Patrice D. Rankine
Endmatter
Works Cited
Index