Antigone Scenes
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Occupy Antigone
Author: Katharina Pewny
language: en
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date: 2016-10-10
This anthology provides some of today's most relevant views on Sophocles' classic and its many interpretations from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural perspective. It critically investigates the work of artists and theoreticians who have occupied Antigone ever since she appeared onstage in antiquity, dealing with questions of the relationship between performance and philosophy and of how Antigone can be appropriated to criticize reigning discourses. Occupy Antigone makes an original contribution to the vibrant life the mythical figure enjoys in contemporary performance practice and theory.
Antigone, Interrupted
Author: Bonnie Honig
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2013-05-02
Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions. Exploring the power of Antigone in a variety of political, cultural, and theoretical settings, Honig identifies the 'Antigone-effect' - which moves those who enlist Antigone for their politics from activism into lamentation. She argues that Antigone's own lamentations can be seen not just as signs of dissidence but rather as markers of a rival world view with its own sovereignty and vitality. Honig argues that the play does not offer simply a model for resistance politics or 'equal dignity in death', but a more positive politics of counter-sovereignty and solidarity which emphasizes equality in life.
Antigone’s Tomb / La tumba de Antígona
The philosopher María Zambrano grants Antigone a compelling new voice in her reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy, which she described as ‘something quite different that hasn’t occurred to anyone’. Written in 1967 from exile, La tumba de Antígona is Zambrano’s only play and retells Antigone’s story through the prism of the Spanish Civil War. This dramatized ‘talking cure’ evokes the eponymous hero’s experience of solitude, delirium, and passion within the marginal space of her tomb, casting her as the messenger of consciousness for the second half of the twentieth century. Recent studies place Zambrano in the visionary company of women with questing minds such as Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and her close contemporary, the Spanish writer Rosa Chacel, whose lives were complicated by fascist conflicts that impelled them to travel across Europe and to the Americas in search of refuge. Placing emphasis on the play as a text for performance, this first English translation (including the author’s prologue and a critical introduction) aims to extend interest in this trailblazing reworking of classical myth by this acclaimed Spanish woman writer and encourage further connections within exile and Antigone scholarship.