The Black Medea: An Introduction

Manfred J. Holler () and Barbara Klose-Ullmann ()
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Manfred J. Holler: University of Hamburg
Barbara Klose-Ullmann: Center of Conflict Resolution (CCR)

Chapter Chapter 9 in Strategic Games on Stage, 2025, pp 189-200 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The paper discusses three adaptations of Euripides’Euripides MedeaMedea which stipulate the heroine as a Black woman: a novella by Paul HeyseHeyse, Paul and theater plays by Hans Henny Jahnn and Guy ButlerButler, Guy. Various dimensions of cultural, racist, and aesthetic discrimination are distilled from this material and analyzed with respect to the impact they have on the course of the actionAction which, in all three adaptations, implies MedeaMedea killed her children—but for different reasons.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82945-1_9

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