Antigone in the Americas : democracy, sexuality, and death in the settler colonial present /
"Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon,...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021].
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| Σειρά: | SUNY Series in Gender Theory
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The Ancient Drama of Political Membership: Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Sophocles's Antigone
- The Modern/Colonial Drama of Political Membership, SettlerColonial Capitalism, and the Slave
- Metic
- Citizen Triad
- Redefining the Political Through Its Subtending Racialized Logic of Valuation
- From Antigone in the Americas to the Americas in Antigone
- From Classicization to Decolonial Rumination
- Chapter Overview
- ch. 1 Antigone In Colonial Antiquity: A Critique Of Democratic Theory In Ancient Athens
- The Democratic Disavowal of Slavery and Metoikia
- Tragedy's Misinterpellated Anarchy
- Toward a Political Antigone
- What If Antigone Was a Metici
- What If Polyneices Was a Slave?
- ch. 2 Antigone In Colonial Modernity: A Critique Of Feminist And Queer Theory In North America
- Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial Modernity
- From the Queer Equivocality of Kinship Positions to the Racial Equivocality of Social Positions
- Whose Ethical Act of Sublimation?
- Tiresias's Gender Complementarity and the Fungibilitycum Fugitivity of Black Transness
- Whose Future?
- Fear of a Quare and TwoSpirit Planet
- ch. 3 Antigone In Colonial Postmodernity: A Critique Of Biopolitics In Latin America
- Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial Postmodernity
- A Modern Biopolitical Antigone in Europe
- Postmodern Necropolitical Antigones in Latin America
- From Modern Melodrama to Postmodern Decolonial Cacophonies
- ch. 4 Antigone In The Settler-Colonial Present Of The Racial Capitalocene: A Critique Of Deconstruction In The Americas
- Antigone in the Age of the Racial Capitalocene
- The Racialized Burial and the Human Border
- A Specter Is Haunting the Americas
- Decolonial Mourning at the Level of World Historical Events
- Black and Indigenous Wakeful Mo'nin.
