Antigone in the Americas

Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present

AvAndrés Fabián Henao Castro

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.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, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Gender Theory
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438484280

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Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Slaves, Metics, CitizensThe Ancient Drama of Political Membership: Slavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Sophocles's AntigoneThe Modern/Colonial Drama of Political Membership, SettlerColonial Capitalism, and the Slave–Metic–Citizen TriadRedefining the Political Through Its Subtending Racialized Logic of ValuationFrom Antigone in the Americas to the Americas in AntigoneFrom Classicization to Decolonial RuminationChapter Overview1. Antigone in Colonial Antiquity: A Critique of Democratic Theory in Ancient AthensThe Democratic Disavowal of Slavery and MetoikiaTragedy's Misinterpellated AnarchyToward a Political AntigoneWhat If Antigone Was a Metic?What If Polyneices Was a Slave?2. Antigone in Colonial Modernity: A Critique of Feminist and Queer Theory in North AmericaSlavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial ModernityFrom the Queer Equivocality of Kinship Positions to the Racial Equivocality of Social PositionsWhose Ethical Act of Sublimation?Tiresias's Gender Complementarity and the Fungibilitycum Fugitivity of Black TransnessWhose Future?Fear of a Quare and TwoSpirit Planet3. Antigone in Colonial Postmodernity: A Critique of Biopolitics in Latin AmericaSlavery, Metoikia, and Citizenship in Colonial PostmodernityA Modern Biopolitical Antigone in EuropePostmodern Necropolitical Antigones in Latin AmericaFrom Modern Melodrama to Postmodern Decolonial Cacophonies4. Antigone in the SettlerColonial Present of the Racial Capitalocene: A Critique of Deconstruction in the AmericasAntigone in the Age of the Racial CapitaloceneThe Racialized Burial and the Human BorderA Specter Is Haunting the AmericasDecolonial Mourning at the Level of WorldHistorical EventsBlack and Indigenous Wakeful Mo'ninConclusion: What Is There Instead of Being Born?NotesBibliographyName IndexSubject Index