There is already a robust postcolonial tradition of interpretation of the classics, but there is not yet a decolonial one. The aim of this new book is to change that. What would it mean to read the classics, in general, and ancient Greek myths, specifically, from a decolonial perspective? That is the main subject of this book.

In arguing for a decolonial reception of Greek myths, this book performs what it calls readers of the classics to do. In this book I want to offer a decolonial reinterpretation of the myths of Penelope and the Maidens, Echo, Medea, Medusa, Jocasta, Procne and Philomena, Antigone, and Prometheus and Pandora, instructive for the cultivation of a queer, feminist, decolonial, and Black radical political imaginary.

To Cannibalize the Classics is to subject the constitutive myths of the Western canon to the creole digestive system, so that those myths can nurture the politics of abolition and decolonization that today constitute the emancipatory horizon of critical theory.