Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (Classical Presences)

CONTENTS
Introduction : Goodbye to Hellas

1 An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean
_{Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Traveller’s Tree - Towards a New World Odyssey - Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcott’s Dialogue with Modern Greece}

2 Classics as School of Empire
_{Classics and the Educational Elite - Contesting the Curriculum - Afro-Romans and Imperial Redistribution - C. L. R. James: Finding one’s Own Way in Classics - Conclusion}

3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature
_{Translating Latin Badly - Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe (2002) - The Postcolonial Virgil in V. S. Naipaul - Derek Walcott: Translating Empire - Conclusion}

4 The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy
_{Athens in Trinidad I: C. L. R. James - Athens in Trinidad II: Eric Williams - Conclusion}

5 Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon
_{The Unstable Canon: A Tale of Two Helens - Classics of National Literature? - Postcolonial Classics: Writing from Rome in Brathwaite’s X/Self - Conclusion}

Bibliography
Index