Antigonas : writing from Latin America /
'Antígonas' rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories by analysing the reimagination if the Antigone myth in the theatres of Latin America.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: our América, our Antígona
- Overture: Antigone's death, Antígona's birth: Juan Cruz Varela's 1824 Argia
- To govern is to populate: Leopoldo Marechal's 1951 Antígona Vélez
- For the people, by the people, with the people: Félix Morisseau-Leroy's 1953 Voduou Antigòn an Kreyòl
- Brazil's exposed corpses: Jorge Andrade's 1957 Pedreira das almas and 1969 As Confrarias
- One hundred years of Puerto Rican solitude: Luis Rafael Sánchez's 1968 Antígona Pérez
- By way of interlude: the dynamics and innovations of the corpus in lesser-known mid-century plays
- The incorruptible: Griselda Gambaro's 1986 Antígona Furiosa
- Revolutionary shame in the year 2000: Yuyachkani's and Watanabe's Peruvian Ismene
- Finale: we are all Antíonas on the twenty-first-century stage
- Appendix: list and diagram of plays: earliest bibliographic information available.