"The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
Work Based On:
Euripides' Medea
Publisher:
West End Press
Language:
English and Español
Format:
Print book
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Play
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Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
"The Hungry Woman, grounded in the Medea legend and Mesoamerican mythology, reinvents the story of Aztlan in the "near future," visualizing a world in which the Chicano/a nation has won a living space but betrayed the principle of equality of the fighters for the revolution. Passionate, earthy, and tragic, full of heroism and villainy, the play calls on a new audience to deal with an imagined political reality."
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Euripides' Medea
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West End Press
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English and Español
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Print book
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Play
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Mexican American, LGBTQ, Aztec mythology, Tragedy, Women and death, and Play
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.
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Sophocles' Antigone
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Les Figues Press
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English and Español
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Print book
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Poetry
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Latin America, Tragedy, Women and death, Missing persons, and Play
Contains the dramatic text for Euripides classic Greek tragedy, in which Medea plots revenge after she is betrayed by her husband and banished from her home; and features an introduction from Robin Mitchell-Boyask that provides background information on Euripides and Greek history.
Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . .
