Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's DramaAfrica World Press, 2007 - 322 pages |
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Page 179
... Euripides ' play Alcestis worthy of adapting and transplant- ing to the postcolonial African context , in order to underscore the pernicious impact of colonial and cultural patriarchy on the lives of women in a particular historical ...
... Euripides ' play Alcestis worthy of adapting and transplant- ing to the postcolonial African context , in order to underscore the pernicious impact of colonial and cultural patriarchy on the lives of women in a particular historical ...
Page 180
... Euripides ' original also did - especially by critics who compared it to other adaptations such as Soyinka's Bacchae of Euripides and Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame ( a highly acclaimed adaptation of Oedipus Rex ) both of which ...
... Euripides ' original also did - especially by critics who compared it to other adaptations such as Soyinka's Bacchae of Euripides and Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame ( a highly acclaimed adaptation of Oedipus Rex ) both of which ...
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... Euripides and Alcestis : Speculations , Simulations , and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture . 20. Critics of Euripides ' texts , especially Alcestis , are sharply divided over whether or not his texts endorse or undermine ...
... Euripides and Alcestis : Speculations , Simulations , and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture . 20. Critics of Euripides ' texts , especially Alcestis , are sharply divided over whether or not his texts endorse or undermine ...
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