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Index
Cover page
Series page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Race, Reception, and Classicisms
A Map of This Work
Charting New Courses
Part I: Wakes
1. Middle Passages: Mediating Classics and Radical Philology in Marlene Nourbe
Introduction
Disiecta membra and Radical Philology in Walcott and Philip
Speaking Bones in Walcott’s Omeros
Marlene NourbeSe Philip: Dismembering the Classics
Rereading the Aeneid: The Canon as Precedent
Conclusion
2. “Nero, the mustard!” The Ironies of Classical Slave Names in the British Caribbean
3. Athens and Sparta of the New World: The Classical Passions of Santo Domingo
Voices in the Wilderness
The Fleeting Splendor of the Colony
The Dictator’s Classics
“Black to the future”
Part II: Journeys
4. In Search of Henry Alexander Saturnin Hartley, Black Classicist, Clergyman, and Physician
Conclusion
5. Roman Studios: The Black Woman Artist in the Eternal City, from Edmonia Lewis to Carrie Mae Weems
“When and Where I Enter”
Piazza del Popolo—4 Via Fontanella (1866–7)
Death of Cleopatra—8 Vicolo di San Nicolo da Tolentino (1867–c.1882)
Pyramids of Rome—4 Via Venti Settembre (1887)
6. Africana Andromeda: Contemporary Painting and the Classical Black Figure
Reimagining Andromeda
Appendix: Referenced Artworks (Not Illustrated)
Part III: Tales
7. The Tragedy of Aimé Césaire
Césaire’s Mythic Origins
8. Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: An Account of Roman London from the Black British Perspective
An Unlearning and Re-education of British History
Europe’s African Roots
The Myth of Persephone and the Politics of Gender
The Black Atlantic
Gender in the Ancient World
9. Myth and the Fantastic in the Work of Junot Díaz
The fukú
10. Classics for All? Liberal Education and the Matter of Black Lives
Classics and an Ancient Blackness
The African, Classics for All, and the Current State of Play
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Veil and the Talented Tenth
#BlackLivesMatter: The Persistence of the Veil, the Problem of the Talented Tenth
Classics for All?
Works Cited
Index
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