Black Odysseys - McConnell, Justine (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford University)

This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest for identity, the Odyssey has inspired writers who are simultaneously striving against and appropriating the very forms which had been used to oppress them.