Whose Antigone? by Tina Chanter
Chanter focuses in particular on two appropriations of Antigone: The Island, set in apartheid South Africa, and Tègònni, set in nineteenth-century Nigeria. Both plays are inspired by the figure of Antigone, and yet they rework her significance in important ways that require us to return to Sophocles' "original" play and attend to some of the motifs that have been marginalized. Chanter explores the complex set of relations that define citizens as opposed to noncitizens, free men versus slaves, men versus women, and Greeks versus barbarians. Whose Antigone? moves beyond the narrow confines critics have inherited from German idealism to reinvigorate debates over the meaning and significance of Antigone, situating it within a wider argument that establishes the salience of slavery as a structuring theme.
"…Chanter's central point about slavery remains simply, powerful and transformative … this is a book that challenges us, in a way that is historically and methodologically subtle, to take 'race' seriously as a philosophical and aesthetic concern" — Radical Philosophy
"Readers will learn a great deal from this beautiful, impassioned, and erudite book." — Mary Beth Mader, author of Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development
Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is author of The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference; Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy; Time, Death, and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger; and Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Rewriting of the Philosophers. She is also the coeditor (with Pleshette DeArmitt) of Sarah Kofman's Corpus and (with Ewa Płonowska Ziarek) of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis, both also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781438437545 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438437544 |
| Title | Whose Antigone? |
| Author | Tina Chanter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2011-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 275 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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