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- Title
The Satyr, the Goddess, and the Oriental Cast: Subversive Classicism in Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine” and “Po' Sandy”.
- Authors
Masiki, Trent
- Abstract
Charles W. Chesnutt’s literary criticism is silent on his engagement with the classical myths of Greco-Roman antiquity, but his journals, essays, speeches, marginalia, and short fiction are not. The antebellum Southern settings and gothic plots in The Conjure Woman revise myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In this study, I amend prevailing Ovidian theories about the mythological substrates of “The Goophered Grapevine” and “Po’ Sandy.” I argue that “The Goophered Grapevine” is a fusion of “Transformation of the Maenads” and “The Rape of Persephone” while “Po’ Sandy” is a revision of an ancient Egyptian myth called “Of Isis and Osiris.”
- Subjects
CHESNUTT, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932; LITERATURE &; myth; AFRICAN American literature -- History &; criticism; CONJURE Woman, The (Book); GOOPHERED Grapevine, The (Short story); PO' Sandy (Short story); OVID, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
- Publication
African American Review, 2016, Vol 49, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/afa.2016.0052