Whose Antigone? : the tragic marginalization of slavery /
Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Shadowy Others of Antigone's Legacy
- 2. Antigone's Liminality: Hegel's Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery
- Hegel's Prohibition of Slavery as a Tragic Topic
- Sculpting Antigone's Ethics from the Gods of "Nature"
- Simplicity, Solidity, and Plasticity of Tragic Heroes in a Pre-Legal Era
- Art Must Be Purer than Life
- 3. Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa: The Island
- Incessant Renaissance of Antigone
- Performative and Political Reflections on Greek Tragedy
- Intervening in Fetishistic Readings of Antigone
- Antigone's "False Titties": The Island
- Concluding Remarks
- 4. Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece: Multiplying and Racializing Genealogies in Tegbnni: An African Antigone
- Butler and Mader: Making Polynices Only a Brother
- Citizens, Substitutes, and Slaves
- Story to Pass On? Antigone's Mythological African Sister, Tegonni
- 5. Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray: The Fetishistic Ruses of Sovereignty in Contemporary Politics
- 6. Concluding Reflections: What If Oedipus or Polynices Had Been Slaves?
