Antigone in the Americas : democracy, sexuality, and death in the settler colonial present /

• Main Author: Henao Castro, Andrés Fabián (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021].
• Series: SUNY Series in Gender Theory
• Subjects: Σοφοκλής, > Αντιγόνη. > 496-406; Σοφοκλής > (496-406) > Ερμηνεία και κριτική.; Αντιγόνη (Μυθολογία) στη λογοτεχνία; Πολιτική και λογοτεχνία; Έρωτας στη λογοτεχνία; Θάνατος στη λογοτεχνία; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική

"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,...