Orrells, Daniel and Bhambra, Gurminder K. and Roynon, Tessa, eds. (2011) African Athena : new agendas. Classical presences . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199595006

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World D History General and Old World > DT Africa
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	History, Ancient -- Historiography, Civilization, Classical -- Historiography, Civilization, Western -- African influences, African Americans -- Intellectual life, Africans -- Intellectual life
Series Name:	Classical presences
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:	Oxford
ISBN:	9780199595006
Editor:	Orrells, Daniel and Bhambra, Gurminder K. and Roynon, Tessa
Date:	2011
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/40770

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