Language: Español / Topic: Latin America and Play / Type: Poetry - Diverse Adaptations of Classical Literature

Start Over Language Español ✖ Topic Latin America ✖ Topic Play ✖ Type Poetry ✖

Creator / Contributor:: Uribe Sánchez, Sara María
Additional Contributor(s):: Pluecker, John, translator
Date Created / Date Issued:: 2016
Description:: Antígona González is the story of the search for a body, a specific body, one of the thousands of bodies lost in the war against drug trafficking that began more than a decade ago in Mexico. A woman, Antígona González, attempts to narrate the disappearance of Tadeo, her elder brother. She searches for her brother among the dead. San Fernando, Tamaulipas, appears to be the end of her search. But Sara Uribe’s book is also a palimpsest that rewrites and cowrites the juxtapositions and interweavings of all the other Antigones. From the foundational Antigone of Sophocles passing through Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa, Leopoldo Marechal’s Antígona Vélez, María Zambrano’s La tumba de Antígona all the way to Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler. And this book’s writing machine includes testimonies from family members of the victims and fragments and fragments from news stories that provide accounts of all these absences, all the bodies that we are missing.
Work Based On:: Sophocles' Antigone
Publisher:: Les Figues Press
Language:: English and Español
Format:: Print book
Type:: Poetry
Topic:: Latin America, Tragedy, Women and death, Missing persons, and Play
Rights - Use and Reproduction:: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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