Eugene Eoyang, “Western Agon/Eastern Ritual: Confrontations and Co-Optations in Worldviews,” in John Burt Foster and Wayne J. Froman,Thresholds of Western Culture: Identity, Postcoloniality, and Transnationalism(New York: Continuum, 2002), 214. We will see that Édoaurd Glissant “is certa...
“Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.” There it is, an antiphrastic attack on Brutus’s character. The audience is made to wonder how a presumably honorable man can call someone ambitious who weeps over the plight of the poor. Antony creates dissonance and ...