Representations of the Antigone Myth in the Latin American Stage: Theatre, Resistance and Memory
The present study is based on a series of questions linked to the persistence of the figure of Antigone in Latin-American theatrical performances and to the possibility of considering theatre as a cultural practice associated to the preservation of memory. The different Latin-American versions of th...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/telondefondo/article/view/7255 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=telonde&d=7255_oai |
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| Sumario: | The present study is based on a series of questions linked to the persistence of the figure of Antigone in Latin-American theatrical performances and to the possibility of considering theatre as a cultural practice associated to the preservation of memory. The different Latin-American versions of the myth make clear that, as Byung-Chul Han (2016) points out, violence is a constant in History and its ways of showing up vary according to the social constellations. While in the Ancient Greece the war was a material exercise over the bodies of the fighters and the victims, nowadays violence turns anonymous, unsubjectivated and systemic. |
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