Modern odysseys : Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a poetics of indirection /
"Explores the relationships between antiquity and modernity through C.P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's engagement with Odyssean tropes"--
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Classical memories/modern identities.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A poetics of indirection and telling it slant
- Diffusion and mixture. Homer: The Odyssey in a sea of difference ; Cavafy: diaspora, oblique encounters, and homoerotic desire ; Césaire: the colonial Antilles and a map of one's own spilled blood ; Woolf: tilting at Pagans' heads in a house that is a town
- Islands and isolation. Homer: from Calypso to the therapy of the word ; Cavafy: cosmopolitan isolation and sexual shaming ; Woolf: domestic katabasis and moments of being ; Césaire: Peléan eruptions and portraits of blood
- Passage and detour. Homer: Odysseus's wound and narrative detours ; Césaire: lagoons of blood and literary cannibalism ; Woolf: Constantinople and exile as carnival ; Cavafy: Mediterranean routes and ephebic visions
- Return and split endings. Homer: murder in the home and split endings ; Woolf: time warps and wild goose chases ; Césaire: the incised tree, the slave ship, and the pirogue ; Cavafy: hedonic ships on policed waters
- Epilogue: Toward an end.