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

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles' classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henao Castro, Andrés Fabián
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Colección:SUNY series in gender theory.
Temas:
Sophocles. > Antigone.
Sophocles > Criticism and interpretation.
Antigone > (Mythological character) > In literature.
Antigone > (Mythological character)
Sophocles.
Antigone (Sophocles)
Democracy in literature.
Sex in literature.
Death in literature.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Mort dans la littérature.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Slaves, Metics, Citizens
  • 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
  • Chapter 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 Metic?
  • The Temporal and Spatial Unfolding of Antigone's Character
  • An-arkhê Beyond the Demos
  • What If Polyneices Was a Slave?
  • Chapter 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
  • Other Kinds of Aberrant Transmissions
  • Protected by Personhood Rather than Undone by Property
  • Whose Ethical Act of Sublimation?
  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
  • On Forced Choices
  • The Unethical Enslaved Who Have Nothing to Lose
  • Tiresias's Gender Complementarity and the Fungibilitycum Fugitivity of Black Transness
  • Whose Future?
  • Fear of a Quare and TwoSpirit Planet
  • Black and Indigenous Antigones in North America
  • Chapter 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
  • From Biopolitics to Necropolitics
  • Neoliberal Necropolitics
  • Postmodern Necropolitical Antigones in Latin America
  • The Necrodialectic of Enforced Disappearances
  • Enforced Disappearances as the Neoliberal Intensification of Settler Colonial Violence and the Figure of the Rebel
  • The Preposterous History of Enforced Disappearances in the Americas, in the Ancient Tragedy of Antigone
  • From the Rockbound Prison to the Invisible Penal Archipelago
  • From Modern Melodrama to Postmodern Decolonial Cacophonies
  • Antigone's Decolonial Mourning
  • Dismembering Value and the Agency of Women in the Community of Slaves
  • The Political Mourning of Maternal Activism under Conditions of Feminicide
  • Resisting the Allure of Intelligibility
  • Chapter 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

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