{"product_id":"9781438484273-antigone-in-the-americas","title":"Antigone in the Americas","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDemocracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophocles's classical tragedy, \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eAntigone in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e not only analyzes the theoretical reception of \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003emetics\u003c\/i\u003e (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAntigone in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e offers a more radical interpretation of \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57106783666550,"sku":"9781438484273","price":93.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27972923.jpg?v=1768889888","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781438484273-antigone-in-the-americas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}