Challenger by Malcolm Mcconnell
Tales of archaic Greek city foundations continued to be told and retold long after the colonies themselves were settled. This book explores how the ancient Greeks constructed their memory of founding new cities overseas. Greek stories about colonizing Sicily or the Black Sea in the seventh century B.C.E. are no more transparent, no less culturally constructed than nineteenth-century British tales of empire in India or Africa; they are every bit as much about power, language, and cultural appropriation. This book brings anthropological and literary theory to bear on the narratives that later Greeks tell about founding colonies and the processes through which the colonized are assimilated into the familiar story lines, metaphors, and rituals of the colonizers. The distinctiveness and the universality of Greek colonial representations are explored through explicit comparison with later European narratives of new world settlement. Unique in its focus on issues of representation and colonial ideology, rather than the traditional historical approach, this book adds much to the study of the archaic colonization movement. Through new historicist readings, Carol Dougherty shows how, long after the Greek colonization movement itself was over, the colonial tale, embedded in important poetic genres and performed as part of significant civic occasions, enabled the Greeks to continue to colonize the past and to establish themselves as the imperial power in that cultural memory.
Malcolm McConnell is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including the number-one New York Times bestseller American Soldier, with Tommy Franks. General Richard B. Myers retired as the fifteenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October 2005, after serving more than forty years in the U.S. Air Force. Currently, he sits on several public and nonprofit boards and lectures nationally on national security issues and leadership.
Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.
Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385238779 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385238770 |
| Titel | Challenger |
| Autor | Malcolm Mcconnell |
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| Verlag | Doubleday Books |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1986-12-02 |
| Seitenanzahl | 269 |
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