| Description |
1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Series |
Gods and heroes of the ancient world |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Gods and heroes of the ancient world: series foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Note on translations used in the volume -- WHY ANTIGONE? -- The scope of this book -- INTRODUCING ANTIGONE -- The family -- Oedipus casting a curse upon his sons -- Antigone -- Sophocles' Antigone -- Overview -- PART I: KEY THEMES -- 1. ANTIGONE AS A 'BAD' WOMAN -- Antigone as a threatening woman-in-charge figure -- Antigone as a 'bad' mother and wife -- Overview |
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2. THE DIVINE VS HUMAN LAWS CONTROVERSY -- The dichotomy of divine and human laws in Sophocles' Antigone: true or false? -- Not all dead are equal -- Antigone disobeying a political order -- Non-burial in Euripides and Aeschylus -- Overview -- 3. GENDERED AND ANTI-GENDERED ANTIGONE -- Antigone in exile -- Antigone in Thebes -- Sophocles' anti-gendered Antigone or Antigone goes public -- Haimon defending Antigone or here comes the groom -- Re-gendering Antigone or stepping back into the female world -- Overview -- 4. THE POLITICS OF LAMENTATION -- Dissident lamentation |
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Lamenting the brothers in the Seven against Thebes -- The pathos in mourning the three slain in Phoenician Women -- Lamenting the father in Oedipus at Colonus -- Sophocles' Antigone: the most dissident of all lamentations -- Overview -- 5. DEATH AND POSTHUMANISM IN SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE -- Tragedy and posthumanism -- Dying becomes her -- Antigone in the Light of László Nemes' Son of Saul -- Antigone: restating her humanity -- Overview -- 6. ANTIGONE IN ROME -- Seneca's Antigone -- Antigone in Statius' Thebaid -- Overview -- PART II: ANTIGONE AFTERWARDS -- SECTION A: In critical thinking |
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7. DE-POLITICIZING ANTIGONE: HEGEL, LACAN, AND BEYOND -- Hegel's Antigone -- Criticism -- Lacan and Žižek on Antigone -- Classical scholarship in depoliticizing Antigone -- Overview -- 8. RE-POLITICIZING ANTIGONE: IRIGARAY, BUTLER, AND BEYOND -- Irigaray -- Butler: Antigone's claim -- When lamentation becomes political praxis -- Overview -- SECTION B: In the arts and society -- 9. FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MID-20TH CENTURY -- Middle Ages to renaissance -- 18th-19th centuries -- 20th-21st centuries: resistance -- Overview -- 10. WAR: ANTIGONES IN WWII, NAZI OCCUPATION, AND CIVIL- WAR GREECE |
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Kalavrita des mille Antigones ('Kalavryta of the Thousand Antigones') by Charlotte Delbo, 1979 -- Elias Venezis' Antigone, 1950 -- Aris Alexandrou's Antigone in post-war Greece -- An Antigone born in a state of exception: from the Nazi Occupation to Al Dab'a and Makronisos -- (Back to) Aris Alexandrou's Antigone: the play -- Overview -- 11. DISPOSSESSION: PALESTINIAN ANTIGONE -- Dispossessed Palestine -- The 2011 production of Antigone by Adel Hakim -- Overview -- 12. EQUALITY ANTIGONES OF MANY SUBJECTIVITIES: PROJECTS AND FILMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY |
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Why Antigone? -- Introducing Antigone -- Key themes -- Sophocles' Antigone as a 'bad' woman -- The divine vs human laws controversy -- Gendered and anti-gendered Antigone -- The politics of lamentation -- Death and posthumanism in Sophocles' Antigone -- Antigone in Rome -- Antigone afterwards -- De-politicizing Antigone: Hegel, Lacan, and beyond -- Re-politicizing Antigone -- From the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century -- War: Antigones in WWII, Nazi Occupation, and Civil-War Greece -- Dispossession: Palestinian Antigone -- Equality: Antigones of many subjectivities in the 21st century |
| Summary |
"This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of classical literature, Antigone defied political authority to carry out the forbidden burial of her brother. Readers will become familiar with the key themes of Antigone's story, such as the law and politics, gender, and death, tracing their survival and transformations over time. Notably, the book explores the thorough de-politicization of the heroine in philosophy and psychoanalysis, followed by a reversal and re-politicization through feminist and socio-political theories. It provides a useful tool to approach postmodern receptions of Antigone in the arts and society in the modern era, particularly in the contexts of occupied and civil war-era Greece, in Palestine, and in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. It also addresses issues of Antigone-like struggles of individuals or collectivities to overcome obstacles of systemic and racialized violence and gender-based oppression in the 21st century, while challenging heteronormative practices and policies to allow new subjectivities to emerge. Though Antigone's story is complex, Karakantza provides an accessible, fascinating overview of this enduring figure's legacy and impact over the course of history. Antigone provides a comprehensive study of this classical heroine, suitable for students and scholars of classical literature, reception studies, and gender studies. It also appeals to theatre practitioners interested in adapting and staging Sophocles' Antigone, or any Antigone of the ancient sources"-- Provided by publisher |
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Projects: Antigone now, Antigone in Ferguson, Anti/gones_Anti/somata |
| Subject |
Antigone (Mythological character) -- In literature
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Sophocles. Antigone.
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Antigone (Mythological character)
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Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Feminist theory.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429792236 |
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0429792239 |
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