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  • 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?