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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 this book chapters explore the impact of the modern African diaspora 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. This book 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.
Believing in Ethiopians / Maghan Keita -- Black Apollo? : Martin Bernal's Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of Classical civilization, volume iii, and why race still matters / Patrice D. Rankine -- Greece, India, and race among the Victorians / Partha Mitter -- Black Minerva : antiquity in antebellum African history / Margaret Malamud -- Black Athena before Black Athena : the teaching of Greek and Latin at Black colleges and universities during the nineteenth century / Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O'Connor -- "Ethiopia shall stretch her hands unto God" : Garveyism, Rastafari, and antiquity / Robbie Shilliam -- Between Exodus and Egypt : Israel-Palestine and the break-up of the Black-Jewish alliance / Anna Hartnell -- Beyond culture wars : reconnecting African and Jewish diasporas in the past and the present / Toby Green -- Egyptian Athena, African Egypt, Egyptian Africa : Martin Bernal and contemporary African historical thought / Stephen Howe -- The afterlives of Black Athena / Robert J.C. Young -- In the house of Libya : a meditation / V.Y. Mudimbe -- Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity : the invention of the novel / Tim Whitmarsh -- The idea of Africa in Lucan / Paolo Asso -- Was Black beautiful in Vandal Africa? / John H. Starks, Jr. -- Identifying authority : Juan Latino, an African ex-slave, professor, and poet in sixteenth-century Granada / J. Mira Seo -- John Barclay's "Camella" poems : ideas of race, beauty, and ugliness in Renaissance Latin verse / John T. Gilmore -- "Lay in Egypt's lap each borrowed crown" : Gerald Massey and late-Victorian Afrocentrism / Brian H. Murray -- "Not Equatorial Black, not Mediterranean white" : Denis Williams's Other leopards / John Thieme -- Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy : performing politics / Astrid Van Weyenberg -- Mythopoeia in the struggle against slavery, racism, and exclusive Afrocentrism / Edith Hall and Justine McConnell -- Dislocating Black classicism : classics and the Black diaspora in the poetry of Aimé Césaire and Kamau Brathwaite / Emily Greenwood -- The Africanness of classicism in the work of Toni Morrison / Tessa Roynon -- Afterword / Martin Bernal.
edited by Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Tessa Roynon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011