CLASSIC 45B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edmund Keeley, Blasket Islands, Aran Islands
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Our thesis is that shifts in the academic study of homeric epic were part of a much broader re-positioning of homer in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century" (p. 3) This re-positioning" involved a move away from the notion of homer as central only to the western literary canon, and towards the idea of world literature. The discovery" by classical scholars of homer as a poet who was oral (and thus comparable to oral poets of modern africa or the ancient near. Artists of african descent who are part of the african diaspora have found odysseus to be a compelling figure to express their experiences. The odyssey refers to the movement of people during the atlantic slave trade or as a result of wars, genocide. Toni morrison addresses the atlantic slave trade in her work during which millions of people were sold into slavery and transported to the. Americas, both the middle passage (1500-1800) and the great.
