Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction Justine McConnell
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1 From Anthropophagy to Allegory and Back: A Study of Classical Myth and the Brazilian Novel Patrice Rankine
	Historical Background: The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and 1989
	Classical Myth as Allegory for Cultural Expression in Brazilian Literature before 1989: The Centaur in the Garden
	Brazilian Novels after 1989: Hotel Atlantico (1989)
	The War of the Saints (1993)
	The Discovery of America by the Turks (1994)
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2 Ibrahim Al-Koni’s Lost Oasis as Atlantis and His Demon as Typhon William M. Hutchins
	Tanit as Athena
	Waw as Atlantis
	The Sahara as a Labyrinth
	Wantahet as Typhon
	Ibrahim al-Koni as Odysseus/Ulysses
	Conclusion
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3 Greek Myth and Mythmaking in Witi Ihimaera’s The Matriarch (1986) and The Dream Swimmer (1997) Simon Perris
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4 War, Religion and Tragedy: The Revolt of the Muckers in Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil’s Videiras de Cristal Sofia Frade
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5 Translating Myths, Translating Fictions Lorna Hardwick
	Crisis, Critical Distance and Transition Literature
	Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying (1995)
	Christa Wolf, Medea: Stimmen (1986)
	Wolf ’s Engagement with Greek Myth – from Cassandra to Medea
	Text, Myth and Variation in Antiquity and in Wolf
	Coda
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6 Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Murakami Haruki’s novels and in Other Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature Giorgio Amitrano
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7 ‘It’s All in the Game’: Greek Myth and The Wire Adam Ganz
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8 Writing a New Irish Odyssey: Theresa Kishkan’s A Man in a Distant Field Fiona Macintosh
	Translating the Odyssey
	The Irish Literary Revival and Comparatism
	An Irish Odyssey
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9 The Minotaur on the Russian Internet: Victor Pelevin’s Helmet of Horror Anna Ljunggren
	Topos
	Dematerialized Characters
	The Helmet of the Minotaur
	Helmet, Mask and Internet-Carnival
	Solving the Puzzle: The Carnival Group Instead of the Character
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10 Diagnosis: Overdose. Status: Critical. Odysseys in Bernhard Schlink’s Die Heimkehr Sebastian Matzner
	The Inset Narrative
	The Inset Political Theory of de Baur
	The Narrative: Plot Progression Through Role Reversals
	The Narrator: Self-stylization
	Framing Intrafictional Interpretation: Personal Relationships and National History
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11 Narcissus and the Furies: Myth and Docufiction in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Edith Hall
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12 Philhellenic Imperialism and the Invention of the Classical Past: Twenty-first Century Re-imaginings of Odysseus in the Greek War for Independence Efrossini Spentzou
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13 The ‘Poem of Force’ in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe Hooper, The Tall Man Margaret Reynolds
	Episode from an Early War
	Ransom
	The Poem of Force
	The Tall Man
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14 Young Female Heroes from Sophocles to the Twenty-First Century Helen Eastman
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15 Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air Justine McConnell
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Notes
Index