Whose Antigone

Author : Tina Chanter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438437560
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Antigone? written by Tina Chanter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Tina Chanter challenges the philosophical and psychoanalytic reception of Sophocles' Antigone, which has largely ignored the issue of slavery. Drawing on textual and contextual evidence, including historical sources, she argues that slavery is a structuring theme of the Oedipal cycle, but one that has been written out of the record. Chanter focuses in particular on two appropriations of Antigone: The Island, set in apartheid South Africa, and Tègònni, set in nineteenth-century Nigeria. Both plays are inspired by the figure of Antigone, and yet they rework her significance in important ways that require us to return to Sophocles' "original" play and attend to some of the motifs that have been marginalized. Chanter explores the complex set of relations that define citizens as opposed to noncitizens, free men versus slaves, men versus women, and Greeks versus barbarians. Whose Antigone? moves beyond the narrow confines critics have inherited from German idealism to reinvigorate debates over the meaning and significance of Antigone, situating it within a wider argument that establishes the salience of slavery as a structuring theme.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585166308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Morales
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589344
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone Rising written by Helen Morales and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world. But in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told -- and read -- in different ways. Through these stories, whether it's Antigone's courageous stand against tyranny or the indestructible Caeneus, who inspires trans and gender queer people today, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity, empowerment, and catharsis. Antigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo, spark resistance, and rail against unjust regimes.

Author : Katharina Pewny
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823379550
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occupy Antigone written by Katharina Pewny and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides some of today's most relevant views on Sophocles' classic and its many interpretations from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural perspective. It critically investigates the work of artists and theoreticians who have occupied Antigone ever since she appeared onstage in antiquity, dealing with questions of the relationship between performance and philosophy and of how Antigone can be appropriated to criticize reigning discourses. Occupy Antigone makes an original contribution to the vibrant life the mythical figure enjoys in contemporary performance practice and theory.

Author : Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438484291
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone in the Americas written by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.

Author : Fanny Söderbäck
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432798
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Readings of Antigone written by Fanny Söderbäck and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and classic essays on Antigone and feminist philosophy.

Author : Paula Landerreche Cardillo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438497105
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Bodies written by Paula Landerreche Cardillo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adriana Cavarero has been, and continues to be, one of the most innovative and influential voices in Italian political and feminist thought of the last forty years. Known widely for her challenges to the male-dominated canon of political philosophy (and philosophy more broadly construed), Cavarero has offered provocative accounts of what constitutes the political, with an emphasis on embodiment, singularity, and relationality. Political Bodies gathers some of today’s most prominent and well-established theorists, along with emerging scholars, to contribute their insights, questions, and concerns about Cavarero's political philosophy and to put her work in conversation with other feminist thinkers, political theorists, queer theorists, and thinkers of race and coloniality. A new essay by Adriana Cavarero herself closes out the volume. Political Bodies ventures beyond the familiar boundaries of Cavarero's own writing and is a testament to the generative encounters that her philosophy makes possible.

Author : Arthur Elam Haigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Drama of the Greeks written by Arthur Elam Haigh and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199706417
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Aeschylus : Volume II: Persians and Other Plays written by Aeschylus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon, a richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.