Henao Castro Antigone in the Americas

Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8429-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henao Castro, Andrés Fabián

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Slaves, Metics, Citizens
The Ancient Drama of Political Membership: Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Sophocles's Antigone
The Modern/Colonial Drama of Political Membership, SettlerColonial Capitalism, and the Slave–Metic–Citizen Triad
Redefining the Political Through Its Subtending Racialized Logic of Valuation
From Antigone in the Americas to the Americas in Antigone
From Classicization to Decolonial Rumination
Chapter Overview

1. Antigone in Colonial Antiquity: A Critique of Democratic Theory in Ancient Athens
The Democratic Disavowal of Slavery and Metoikia
Tragedy's Misinterpellated Anarchy
Toward a Political Antigone
What If Antigone Was a Metic?
What If Polyneices Was a Slave?

2. Antigone in Colonial Modernity: A Critique of Feminist and Queer Theory in North America
Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial Modernity
From the Queer Equivocality of Kinship Positions to the Racial Equivocality of Social Positions
Whose Ethical Act of Sublimation?
Tiresias's Gender Complementarity and the Fungibilitycum Fugitivity of Black Transness
Whose Future?
Fear of a Quare and TwoSpirit Planet

3. Antigone in Colonial Postmodernity: A Critique of Biopolitics in Latin America
Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial Postmodernity
A Modern Biopolitical Antigone in Europe
Postmodern Necropolitical Antigones in Latin America
From Modern Melodrama to Postmodern Decolonial Cacophonies

4. Antigone in the Settler-Colonial Present of the Racial Capitalocene: A Critique of Deconstruction in the Americas
Antigone in the Age of the Racial Capitalocene
The Racialized Burial and the Human Border
A Specter Is Haunting the Americas
Decolonial Mourning at the Level of WorldHistorical Events
Black and Indigenous Wakeful Mo'nin

Conclusion: What Is There Instead of Being Born?

Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.