03444nam 2200625Ia 450 991082659060332120200520144314.01-4384-3756-01-4416-9788-8(CKB)2550000000044994(OCoLC)742350423(CaPaEBR)ebrary10574119(SSID)ssj0000526566(PQKBManifestationID)11372802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000526566(PQKBWorkID)10521689(PQKB)10619811(MdBmJHUP)muse14175(Au-PeEL)EBL3407257(CaPaEBR)ebr10574119(DE-B1597)683596(DE-B1597)9781438437569(MiAaPQ)EBC3407257(EXLCZ)99255000000004499420100930d2011 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWhose Antigone? the tragic marginalization of slavery /Tina Chanter1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20111 online resource (278 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4384-3754-4 1-4384-3755-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --List of Abbreviated Titles Cited in Text for Quick Reference --Introduction --Antigone’s Liminality --The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa --Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece --Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray --Concluding Reflections --Synopses of The Island and Tègònni --Notes --BibliographyIn 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.Slavery in literatureAntigone (Greek mythology) in literatureFeminism in literatureSlavery in literature.Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature.Feminism in literature.882/.01Chanter Tina1960-1120291MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826590603321Whose Antigone4032378UNINA