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245 10 a| Whose Antigone? :b| the tragic marginalization of slavery /c| Tina Chanter.;

300 a| xli, 233 pages ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: The shadowy others of Antigone's legacy -- 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" ; The simplicity, solidity, and plasticity of tragic heroes in a pre-legal era ; Art must be purer than life -- The performative politics and rebirth of Antigone in ancient Greece and modern South Africa : The island. The 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 -- Exempting Antigone from ancient Greece : multiplying and racializing genealogies in Tègònni: an African Antigone. Butler and Mader : making Polynices only a brother ; Citizens, substitutes, and slaves ; A story to pass on? Antigone's mythological African sister, Tègònni ; Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray : the fetishistic ruses of sovereignty in contemporary politics ; Concluding reflections : What if Oedipus or Polynices had been slaves? -- Synopses of The island and Tègònni.;

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Whose Antigone? : the tragic marginalization of slavery / Tina Chanter.

Author/creator	Chanter, Tina, 1960-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Description	xli, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Sophocles. Antigone. Slavery in literature. Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature. Feminism in literature.

Contents	Introduction: The shadowy others of Antigone's legacy -- 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" ; The simplicity, solidity, and plasticity of tragic heroes in a pre-legal era ; Art must be purer than life -- The performative politics and rebirth of Antigone in ancient Greece and modern South Africa : The island. The 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 -- Exempting Antigone from ancient Greece : multiplying and racializing genealogies in Tègònni: an African Antigone. Butler and Mader : making Polynices only a brother ; Citizens, substitutes, and slaves ; A story to pass on? Antigone's mythological African sister, Tègònni ; Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray : the fetishistic ruses of sovereignty in contemporary politics ; Concluding reflections : What if Oedipus or Polynices had been slaves? -- Synopses of The island and Tègònni.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010041946
ISBN	9781438437552 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	1438437552 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781438437545 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	1438437544 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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