Antígonas

Auteur
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).

Texte du rabat

Antígonas 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.