Ant?onas: Writing from Latin America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192897091)

Ant?onas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Ant?ona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in necolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Ant?ona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Ant?ona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Ant?onas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies.

Author: Moira Fradinger
ISBN-10: 0192897098
ISBN-13: 9780192897091
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2023
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.73h x 5.82w x 1.14d