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Antigone's claim : kinship between life and death

Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000.
Series: Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocle's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and  Read more...
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Named Person: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Luce Irigaray; Jacques Lacan
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Butler
ISBN: 0231118945 9780231118941 0231118953 9780231118958
OCLC Number: 43951993
Description: x, 103 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Antigone's Claim --
Unwritten Laws, Aberrant Transmissions --
Promiscuous Obedience.
Series Title: Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Responsibility: Judith Butler.

Abstract:

"Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocle's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antignone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a liveable life."--BOOK JACKET.

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