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Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories by analysing the reimagination if the Antigone myth in the theatres of Latin America.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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).
Summary
Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories by analysing the reimagination if the Antigone myth in the theatres of Latin America.
Additional text
The Antígonas in her meticulously researched book are unsettling not because of their incestuous desires, but because they challenge the political norms imposed by the Global North on the Global South. The author expertly traces this fascinating story...Moira Fradinger's book explores what it might mean to live in the age of Antígona.
