From: "fiona chalamanda" <fchalamanda-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Postcolonial Versions and the Classics
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:44:06 PST


Clara,
Having scanned my bookshelf, a few more postcolonial re-writings of western 
classics for you, this time examples with more overt connections:

Aime Cesaire's UNE TEMPETE  and Marina Warner's INDIGO are both rewritings 
of Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST

Derek Walcott's OMEROS is a re-writing of Homeric epics

J.M.Coetzee's FOE is a re-writing of Daniel Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE

Loads more out there. I'm sure other people will contribute more 
suggestions.
Good luck!
Fiona


F.M.J.Chalamanda
Dept. of English
University of Stirling,
Scotland

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>From: Clara Joseph <cjoseph-AT-yorku.ca>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Postcolonial Versions and the Classics
>Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:46:45 -0800
>
>Can folks please help with this?
>
>What are some of the postcolonial versions of  British and Western
>'classics'?
>
>eg., Jean Rhy's Wide Sargasso Sea as a version of  Charlotte Bronte's
>Jane Eyre
>
>Thanks,
>Clara

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