Crossroads in the Black Aegean. Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora

ISBN: 978-0-19-921718-2. doi:10.1017/S0009840X08001704 This volume joins a growing body of work on classical culture and its adaptations in colonial and post-colonial cultures. [...]the authors look both to models of cultural transmission within the receiving culture and to Freudian (and Fanonian) psychoanalysis in order to demonstrate how these adaptations allegorise their own cultural predicament. [...]one wonders how well their model ts with such non-textual adaptations as Workshop 71s performance of Antigone 71, which did not change a word of the translation of Sophocles play, but by casting a black South African woman as Antigone and a white South African man as Creon and employing projections of Soweto as the set used Sophocles to critique colonial culture in a very powerful manner.