![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This entails a discussion of the term 'black classicism' that has gained prominence in recent times as post-colonial and poststructuralist approaches have renegotiated the cultural presumptions upon which the classical tradition rests. In order to illustrate the cultural mobility of the myth in modern times, I want to look at African American and African Brazilian contexts in which it has figured prominently as a symbol for black artistic creation. As analytic examples, I choose three examples of the cultural reception of the myth of Orpheus, since it resonates strongly with cultural ecology and classical reception alike. My essay brings cultural ecology together with classical reception studies – two paradigms of cultural theory that have rarely interacted so far, but, as I want to show, fit well together, because both deal with questions of cultural (self-)renewal and the mobility of symbolic forms of meaning making (between culture and nature and between different times and spaces respectively). ![]()
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