Whose Antigone?
Subtitle: the tragic marginalization of slavery
By: Tina Chanter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781438437552; 9781438437545
Subjects: Slavery in literature; Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature; Feminism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The shadowy others of Antigone's legacy; title: Antigone's liminality: Hegel's racial purification of tragedy and the naturalization of slavery; title: Hegel's prohibition of slavery as a tragic topic; title: Sculpting Antigone's ethics from the gods of "nature"; title: The simplicity, solidity, and plasticity of tragic heroes in a pre-legal era; title: Art must be purer than life; title: The performative politics and rebirth of Antigone in ancient Greece and modern South Africa: The island; title: The incessant renaissance of Antigone; title: Performative and political reflections on Greek tragedy; title: Intervening in fetishistic readings of Antigone; title: Antigone's "false titties": The island; title: Concluding remarks; title: Exempting Antigone from ancient Greece: multiplying and racializing genealogies in Tègònni: an African Antigone; title: Butler and Mader: making Polynices only a brother; title: Citizens, substitutes, and slaves; title: A story to pass on? Antigone's mythological African sister, Tègònni; title: Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray: the fetishistic ruses of sovereignty in contemporary politics; title: Concluding reflections: What if Oedipus or Polynices had been slaves?; title: Synopses of The island and Tègònni.