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Book SynopsisThis volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern ‘West’.
Table of ContentsIntroductions; 1. Towards a Manifesto for Critical Ancient World Studies – Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward; 2. Critical Muslim Studies and the Remaking of the (Ancient) World – S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil; Critical Epistemologies; 3. Reading for Diasporic Experience in the Delian Serapeia– Helen Wong; 4. Recentering Africa in the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Legacy of Ancient Egyptian Philosophy – Nicholas Chukwudike Anakwue; 5. Epistemic Injustice in the Classics Classroom – Ashley Lance; Critical Philologies; 6. Comparative Philology and Critical Ancient World Studies – Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad; 7. Forging the Anti-Lexicon with Hephaestus – Hannah Silverblank; 8. Sappho’s Body as Archive: Towards a Deep Lez Philology – Ella Haselswerdt; Critical Time and Critical Space; 9. Colonial Cartography and the Classical Imagination: Mapping Critique and Dreaming Ancient Worlds – Mathura Umachandran; 10. Away from "Civilisational" Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean: Embracing Classical and Islamic Cultural Co-presences and Simultaneous Histories at the Parthenon and Ayasofya – Lylaah L. Bhalerao; 11. Queer Time, Crip Time, Woman Time, Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Muslim Time… Remaking Temporality Beyond "the Classical" – Marchella Ward; Critical Approaches; 12. A Loss of Faith Brings Vertigo: Icarus, Black and Queer Embodiment and the Failure of the West – Patrice Rankine; 13. Critical Reception Studies: The White Feminism of Feminist Reception Scholarship – Holly Ranger; 14. The Anti-radical Classicism of Karl Marx’s Dissertation – Kiran Pizarro Mansukhani; Afterword(s); In the Jaws of CAWS: A Response – Dan-el Padilla Peralta.
