Medea’s Long Shadow in Postcolonial Contexts

This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figures and their depictions from antiquity to modernity in a range of media.

Ana Filipa Prata is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities and Literature at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Her research focuses especially on the study of transits and migrations in contemporary Portuguese and French literature, African literatures in Portuguese language, with a specific interest in postcolonial and gender discussions and, more recently, in the debate on world literature. She is co-editor of Cities of the Lusophone World. Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations (Peter Lang, 2018).

Rodrigo Verano is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He has worked extensively in ancient Greek linguistics, especially in the fields of Discourse and Conversation Analysis focusing on literary dialogues from the classical period, and in the reception of Greek and Roman literature in the contemporary world. He is editor of A Ítaca desde el Guaviare (Ediciones Uniandes, 2019), a collection of essays that explores Homer’s poems from the Colombian post-conflict.