The Returns of Antigone

Interdisciplinary Essays

Tina Chanter, Sean D. Kirkland (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

333 Seiten

2014
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5293-7 (ISBN)

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Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Despite a venerable tradition of thinkers having declared the death of tragedy, Antigone lives on. Disguised in myriad national costumes, invited to a multiplicity of international venues, inspiring any number of political protests, Antigone transmits her energy through the ages and across the continents in an astoundingly diverse set of contexts. She continues to haunt dramatists, artists, performers, and political activists all over the world. This cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection explores how and why, with essays ranging from philosophical, literary, and political investigations to queer theory, race theory, and artistic appropriations of the play. It also establishes an international scope for its considerations by including assessments of Latin American and African appropriations of the play alongside European receptions of the play.

Tina Chanter is Head of the School of Humanities at Kingston University in the United Kingdom. Her many books include Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press. Sean D. Kirkland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and the author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato's Early Dialogues, also published by SUNY Press.

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Introduction
Tina Chanter and Sean D. Kirkland

I. Context and Text

1. Antigone’s Laments, Creon’s Grief
Bonnie Honig

2. Tragic Time
Sean D. Kirkland

3. The Ruin of Song: Community and Autoimmunity in Sophocles’s Antigone
Damian Stocking

II. The Impertinence of Antigone

4. Antigone’s Limits
Kevin Thompson

5. Beyond Antigone: Ismene, Gender, and the Right to Life
Mary C. Rawlinson

III. Psychoanalysis and Its Limits

6. Being Genealogical: Tragic Necessity in Sophocles’s Antigone
Mary Beth Mader

7. Kristeva’s Antigone: Oedipus’s Most Radical Possibility
S. K. Keltner

8. “Communal Blood, Fraternal Blood…”: The Space of Antigone and the Aporias of Difference, translated by Gabriel Malenfant and Bettina Bergo
Georges Leroux

IV. Butler’s Claim

9. Outside/In: Antigone and the Limits of Politics
Sina Kramer

10. Itinerant Antigone
Liz Appel

11. The Queer Heroics of Butler’s Antigone
Marie Draz

V. Antigone’s New Contexts

12. Antígonas: On the Uses of Tragedy
Moira Fradinger

13. Toward a Theory of Apolitics
R. Clifton Spargo

14. African Antigones: Pasts, Presents, Futures
Astrid Van Weyenberg

15. Bodies in Exile: From Tragedy to Performance Art
Cecilia Sjöholm

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.11.2014
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Gender Theory
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 3
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4384-5293-4 / 1438452934
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-5293-7 / 9781438452937
Zustand	Neuware