Antigone in the Americas: Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro

Published by SUNY Press 2021

Antigone in the Americas

Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present

Andrés Fabián Henao Castro

In the series SUNY series in Gender Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438484297

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Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas.

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Andrés Fabián Henao Castro is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Slaves, Metics, Citizens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Antigone in Colonial Antiquity A Critique of Democratic Theory in Ancient Athens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Antigone in Colonial Modernity A Critique of Feminist and Queer Theory in North America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Antigone in Colonial Postmodernity A Critique of Biopolitics in Latin America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Antigone in the Settler.Colonial Present of the Racial Capitalocene A Critique of Deconstruction in the Americas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Conclusion What is there Instead of Being Born? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 290
Illustrations
- Other: Total Illustrations: 3
Keywords: American Studies : Indigenous Studies; Politics and Law : Political Theory; Gender and Sexuality : Women's Studies; Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies : Latin American Studies; Gender and Sexuality : Queer Studies

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Published: July 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781438484297

Antigone in the Americas

Democracy, Sexuality, and Death in the Settler Colonial Present

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Slaves, Metics, Citizens

Antigone in Colonial Antiquity

Antigone in Colonial Modernity

Antigone in Colonial Postmodernity

Antigone in the Settler.Colonial Present of the Racial Capitalocene

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index