Empathy and resistance: Antigone in plays of contemporary female wrighters
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https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i21.41515Keywords:
Sophocles, Contemporary Female Playwrights, Hélia Correia, Griselda Gambaro, Itzíar PascualAbstract
The figure of Antigone - like all the mythemes of the Oedipal family, reformulated so many times up to the present day - presents different lines of conflict derived from problematic regimes in the family, philosophical-moral and socio-political domains. There are several theatre texts that outline the premises and consequences of the search for a fair ethical and emotional path in dilemmatical situations; and they elaborate them in multifaceted configurations that at the same time are symptomatic of the conditions and concerns of literary writing, and very specifically of the textual production of male and female authors. In our contribution, we examine how three Ibero-Romanic female playwrights from recent decades deal with the possibility of essentially human empathy becoming political contestation We discuss the particular dialectics in which the plays develop the question of the legitimacy of such a form of resistance, sometimes vindicating it, sometimes questioning it. We focus on Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa (Argentine, 1986), Hélia Correia’s Perdição (Portugal, 1991) and Itzíar Pascual’s Antígona (Spain, 2018) to find out how natural right reacts to the power and authority of the judicial law in these plays, why it succumbs, and what the specific implications of the gender category are in conflicts of this nature.
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