Antígonas

Writing from Latin America
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-19-289709-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Antígona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in necolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Antígona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Antígona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fradinger, Moira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Our América, Our Antígona

- Overture: Antigone's Death, Antígona's Birth: Juan Cruz Varela's 1824 Argia

- 1: "To Govern Is to Populate": Leopoldo Marechal's 1951 Antígona Vélez

- 2: For the People, By the People, With the People: Félix Morisseau-Leroy's 1953 Vodou Antigòn an Kreyòl

- 3: Brazil's Exposed Corpses: Jorge Andrade's 1957 Pedreira das almas and 1969 As Confrarias

- 4: One Hundred Years of Puerto Rican Solitude: Luis Rafael Sánchez's 1968 Antígona Pérez

- 5: By Way of Interlude: The Dynamics and Innovations of the Corpus in Lesser-Known Mid-Century Plays

- 6: The Incorruptible: Griselda Gambaro's 1986 Antígona Furiosa

- 7: Revolutionary Shame in the Year 2000: Yuyachkani's and Watanabe's Peruvian Ismene

- 8: Finale: We Are All Antígonas on the Twenty-First-Century Stage

- Appendix: List and Diagram of Plays: Earliest Bibliographic Information Available

Über Autor(innen)

Moira Fradinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She works on South American, Caribbean and European fiction and film; Anti-colonial and decolonial thought; classics in Latin America and the Caribbean; psychoanalytic theory, and gender studies. Fradinger recently translated six 20th-century Latin American vernacular Antigona plays into English. She is the author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins (2010).