Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
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The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship--and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231118945
ISBN13:9780231118941
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:118 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.3" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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