Comparative Materials

ZENOBIA

COMPARATIVE MATERIAL FOR CLASSICAL & CONTEMPORARY TRADITIONS

African

N. Bishop, "A Nigerian Version of a Greek Classic: Soyinka's Transformation of the Bacchae," Research in African Literatures 14.1 (1983): 68-80.
D. Bonneau, "Africa and Ancient Greece: Euripides, Soyinka and their Bacchants," in European-Language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by A. S. Gerard, 1191-1200 (Budapest 1986)
P. J. Conradie, "'The Gods are Not to Blame'-Ola Rotimi's Version of the Oedipus Myth," Akroterion 39 (1994): 27-36.
________, "Syncretism in Wole Soyinka's Play 'The Bacchae of Euripides,'" South African Theatre Journal 4.1 (1990): 61-74.
E. A. Mackay, "Antigone and Orestes in the Works of Athol Fugard," Theoria 74 (1989): 31-43.
J. Maritz, "Some Thoughts on the Classical Allusions in the Work of M. B. Zimunya," Akroterion 41 (1996): 151-60.
D. L. Selden, “Aithiopika and Ethiopianism,“ in Studies in Heliodorus, edited by R. L. Hunter, 182-217 (Cambridge 1998)
J. Tatum, "An African Socareates," in Apuleius and the Golden Ass, edited J. Tatum, 105-34 (Ithaca, 1979)

African American

Asian American

Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (Berkeley: Quinto Sol Publications, 1972).
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (New York: Tanam Press, 1982; reprinted Berkeley: Third Woman Press 1995).
Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinamon and the Year of the Dragon: Two Plays (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981). (family concerns)
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters (New York: Penguin Books, 1990). (oral compoisition and tradition)
David Henry Hwang, FOB and Other Plays (includes 'Family Devotions), (New York: Plume, 1990). (family concerns)
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980). (immigrant tale)

________, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977). (oral compoisition and tradition)
________, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1989). (immigrant tale)
Li-Young Lee, The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995). (oral compoisition and tradition)
Russell Leong, The Country of Dreams and Dust (Albuquerque: West End Press, 1993). (immigrant tale)
Fae Myenne Ng, Bone (New York: Hyperion, 1993). (family concerns)
Derek Walcott, Omeros (New York: The Noonday Press, 1990).
Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Latham, NY: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1988).

Cuban American

Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban (New York: Ballantine Books 1992). (Family Concerns)

Hispanic

Paul Beekman Taylor, "The Chicano Translation of Troy: Epic Topoi in the Novels of Rudolfo A. Anaya." MELUS 19.3 (1994): 19-35.

Native American