Antigonas by Moira Fradinger
Antigonas 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.
Moira Fradinger's book explores what it might mean to live in the age of Antígon * Daniel Orrells, TLS *
The Antígonas in her meticulously researched book are unsettling not because of their incestuous desires, but because they challenge the political norms imposed by the Global North on the Global SouthThe author expertly traces this fascinating story...Moira Fradinger's book explores what it might mean to live in the age of Antígona. * Daniel Orrells, TLS *
The Antígonas in her meticulously researched book are unsettling not because of their incestuous desires, but because they challenge the political norms imposed by the Global North on the Global SouthThe author expertly traces this fascinating story...Moira Fradinger's book explores what it might mean to live in the age of Antígona. * Daniel Orrells, TLS *
Moira Fradinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She works on South American, Caribbean and European fiction and film; Anti-colonial and decolonial thought; classics in Latin America and the Caribbean; psychoanalytic theory, and gender studies. Fradinger recently translated six 20th-century Latin American vernacular Antigona plays into English. She is the author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins (2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192897091 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192897098 |
| Title | Antigonas |
| Author | Moira Fradinger |
| Series | Classical Presences |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Prizes | Winner of Co-Winner, 2024 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association. |
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