Patrice Rankine
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrice Rankine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrice |
| FAMILY NAME | Rankine |
| SIGNATURE | RANKINE P |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3755-8054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nation, Whiteness, Classical Antiquity
In this chapter, the ties between the nation, racial identity, and the role of classicism are traced as an identity marker. Alt-right – or identitarian – movements and the nation are coterminous in their racialization, an association that their redeployment of antiquity reifies. Analysis of the nation, Whiteness, and antiquity draws examples from the West, particularly the United States, in terms of the wayward identitarian movements that have be…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon (review)
Reviewed by: The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon Patrice Rankine Tessa Roynon. The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2021. 296 pp. $35.95. The quest for the Great American Novel was a constant literary trope and a heroic personal pursuit for many writers across the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, perhaps only avid readers of fiction wonder about the novel’s galv…
Black Utopia
Reviewed by: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Patrice Rankine Alex Zamalin. Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism. New York: Columbia UP, 2019. 192 pp. $26.00. Alex Zamalin's Black Utopia feels as if it was written for the contemporary moment despite its being anchored primarily in other epochs. The early twenty-first century has revealed the pernicio…
Empire of Ruin
Reviewed by: Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture by John Levi Barnard Patrice Rankine John Levi Barnard. Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. 248 pp. $74.00. John Levi Barnard's Empire of Ruin fits into a discourse in the early twenty-first century of the problematizing of American exceptionalism, which has arisen in part from minority perspectives or interests (e.g.…
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Dionysus in 69 in 2009
The Power of Medea’s Sisterhood
When Greeks Stand you up, Invite Romans
“Aeschylus Got Flow!”
The Darkening of Medea
August Wilson and Greek Drama
Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship
New Worlds, Old Dreams?
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbi…
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Dionysus in 69 in 2009
The Power of Medea’s Sisterhood
When Greeks Stand you up, Invite Romans
“Aeschylus Got Flow!”
The Darkening of Medea
August Wilson and Greek Drama
Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship
New Worlds, Old Dreams?
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbi…
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas
The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first collection of essays to discuss the presence of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The classics have never been tied by geographical nor linguistic boundaries, and in the case of the Americas long colonial histories have often imposed those boundaries arbitrarily. This compendious volume trac…
Empire of Ruin
Reviewed by: Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture by John Levi Barnard Patrice Rankine John Levi Barnard. Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. 248 pp. $74.00. John Levi Barnard's Empire of Ruin fits into a discourse in the early twenty-first century of the problematizing of American exceptionalism, which has arisen in part from minority perspectives or interests (e.g.…
Black Utopia
Reviewed by: Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Patrice Rankine Alex Zamalin. Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism. New York: Columbia UP, 2019. 192 pp. $26.00. Alex Zamalin's Black Utopia feels as if it was written for the contemporary moment despite its being anchored primarily in other epochs. The early twenty-first century has revealed the pernicio…
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon (review)
Reviewed by: The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon Patrice Rankine Tessa Roynon. The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2021. 296 pp. $35.95. The quest for the Great American Novel was a constant literary trope and a heroic personal pursuit for many writers across the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, perhaps only avid readers of fiction wonder about the novel’s galv…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Nation, Whiteness, Classical Antiquity
In this chapter, the ties between the nation, racial identity, and the role of classicism are traced as an identity marker. Alt-right – or identitarian – movements and the nation are coterminous in their racialization, an association that their redeployment of antiquity reifies. Analysis of the nation, Whiteness, and antiquity draws examples from the West, particularly the United States, in terms of the wayward identitarian movements that have be…
Art (12 works) · History (12 works) · Literature (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Drama (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)