Weyenberg, Astrid van
Contemporary African adaptations of classical Greek tragedies: in 'The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy' Astrid Van Weyenberg analyses six South African and Nigerian dramatic texts through the thematic lens of resistance, revolution, reconciliation, and mourning. Astrid Van Weyenberg is assistant professor of Literary Studies.
Throughout this book, the emphasis is on how playwrights - through adaptation - perform a cultural politics directed at the Europe that has traditionally considered ancient Greece as its property, foundation, and legitimization. Van Weyenberg additionally discusses how contemporary African reworkings of Greek tragedies invite us to reconsider how we think about the genre of tragedy and about the cultural process of adaptation. This book demonstrates that Greek tragedy holds relevance today.
The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy
- Astrid van Weyenberg
- Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers, 2013
- ISBN 978 90 42 03700 7