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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Tina Chanter
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2016.
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The essay argues that the presence of slavery haunts Sophocles’ tragic drama Antigone, and that new world slavery and colonialism continue to haunt modern and contemporary western interpretations of the play. Through accumulating a series of details that have been neglected by the critical reception of Sophocles’ Antigone, the essay claims that an interrogation of slavery, citizenship, outsiders and foreigners is just as central to Antigone and to Oedipus Rex as the issues of incest and sexual difference that continue to dominate their critical reception, which remains overdetermined by Freud and Hegel.
Author(s): Chanter T
Editor(s): Katharina Pewny, Luk Van den Dries, Charlotte Gruber, and Simon Leenknegt
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Occupy Antigone: Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance
Year: 2016
Print publication date: 10/10/2016
Online publication date: 12/10/2016
Acceptance date: 01/01/2015
Series Title: Schriftenreihe Forum Modernes Theater series
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
URL: https://www.narr.de/occupy-antigone-16955
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9783823369554
