Antígonas writing from Latin America Moira Fradinger

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fradinger, Moira, author.

Series:

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antigone (Mythological character)--In literature.

Antigone.

Antigone (Mythological character).

Theater--Latin America--History.

Theater.

Latin American literature--Classical influences.

Latin American literature.

Latin America.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xxv, 453 pages illustrations (some color), map 22 cm

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2023

Summary:

"Ant̕gonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Ant̕gona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in neocolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Ant̕gona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Ant̕gona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Ant̕gonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies."--Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction: our América, our Antígona

Overture: Antigone's death, Antígona's birth: Juan Cruz Varela's 1824 Argia

"To govern is to populate": Leopoldo Marechal's 1951 Antígona Vélez

For the people, by the people, with the people: Félix Morisseau-Leroy's 1953 Voduou Antigòn an Kreyòl

Brazil's exposed corpses: Jorge Andrade's 1957 Pedreira das almas and 1969 As Confrarias

One hundred years of Puerto Rican solitude: Luis Rafael Sánchez's 1968 Antígona Pérez

By way of interlude: the dynamics and innovations of the corpus in lesser-known mid-century plays

The incorruptible: Griselda Gambaro's 1986 Antígona Furiosa

Revolutionary shame in the year 2000: Yuyachkani's and Watanabe's Peruvian Ismene

Finale: we are all Antíonas on the twenty-first-century stage

Appendix: list and diagram of plays: earliest bibliographic information available

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-434) and index

ISBN:

0192897098

9780192897091

OCLC:

1329421198