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  • Postcolonial Perceptions of Homeric Epic by Emily Greenwood

  • from The Reception of Homer since 1900
  • Edited by Corinne Ondine Pache
  • Edited in association with Casey Dué , University of Houston, Susan Lupack , Macquarie University, Sydney, Robert Lamberton, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Homer
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 532-535

  • Summary

    This essay analyzes the ambivalence of the reception of the Homeric epics in anti- and postcolonial literatures. The postcolonial reception of the Odyssey can be charted between two poles: the colonizer’s Odyssey, in which works write back to the figure of Odysseus as colonizer, and Odysseus as dispossessed refugee whose wanderings reflect the condition of the wretched of the earth. While the Iliad has been less salient for postcolonial literatures, some notable receptions focus on Helen and on Priam’s back story.