{"product_id":"african-athena-new-agendas-9780199595006","title":"African Athena: New Agendas","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Orrells | Dr Bhambra Gurminder K. | Tessa Roynon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - Greece\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe appearance of Martin Bernal's \u003cem\u003eBlack Athena: The Afro-Asian Roots of Classical Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e in 1987 sparked intense debate and controversy in Africa, Europe, and North America. His detailed genealogy of the 'fabrication of Greece' and his claims for the influence of ancient African and Near Eastern cultures on the making of classical Greece, questioned many intellectuals' assumptions about the nature of ancient history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe transportation of enslaved African persons into Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, brought African and diasporic African people into contact in significant numbers with the Greek and Latin classics for the first time in modern history. In \u003cem\u003eAfrican Athena\u003c\/em\u003e, the contributors explore the impact of the modern African disapora from the sixteenth century onwards on Western notions of history and culture, examining the role Bernal's claim has played in European and American understandings of history, and in classical, European, American and Caribbean literary production. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfrican Athena\u003c\/em\u003e examines the history of intellectuals and literary writers who contested the white, dominant Euro-American constructions of the classical past and its influence on the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMartin Bernal has written an Afterword to this collection.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47891225378967,"sku":"9780199595006","price":17501.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199595006.webp?v=1781182752","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/african-athena-new-agendas-9780199595006","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}