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Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora (Classical Presences) by Barbara Goff; Michael Simpson is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

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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, in the inexorable curse of Oedipus and the regr

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Author

Barbara Goff; Michael Simpson

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191607608

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Science, Semiotics & Theory, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25