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Astrid Van Weyenberg is a lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her MA in English literature from the University of Amsterdam, after which she took the MSc course "Nation, Writing, Culture" at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Astrid wrote her doctoral dissertation, "The Politics of Adaptation: Contemporary African Drama and Greek Tragedy", at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. In this study, she submits that African playwrights employ Greek tragedy first and foremost as a vehicle with which to address the political challenges of their specific countries. Thus emphasizing Greek tragedy’s relevance within particular African contexts, playwrights simultaneously challenge the Eurocentrism that has traditionally defined and inhibited universalist definitions of tragedy. Astrid’s primary interest is in analyzing how the politics of adaptation is constituted by the tension at play in the dynamic between adaptation and pre-text.
Teaching 2011-2012
Tekstanalyse - Literaire Werelden - 7 Meesterwerken - Sleutelbegrippen - Literatuur en Cultuur - Narrative and Globalization - Literature in Theory - Academic Writing Office hour: appointment via e-mail
Publications (selection)
"Ritual and Revolution: The Politics of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba Tragedy", African Athena: New Agendas. Eds. Daniel Orrells, Gurminder Bhambra and Tessa Roynon. Oxford University Press. “Revolutionary Muse: Fémi Òsófisan’s Tègònni: an African Antigone ”, Classical Presences . Eds. Steve Willmer and Audrone Zukauskaite. Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Ireland’s Carthaginians and Tragic Heroines.” Xchanges 2.2 Confrontation, Conflict, and Negotiationsof National Space, Wayne State University. Detroit, Michigan, US, 2003.
Ireland's Carthaginians and Tragic Heroines
'Rewrite this ancient end!' Staging transition in post-apartheid South Africa
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