Article
Antigone Claimed: 'I Am a Stranger!' Political Theory and the Figure of the Stranger
Hypatia
(2013)
Abstract
This paper seeks to destabilize the silent privilege given to the secured juridical-political position of the citizen as the stable site of enunciation of the problem/solution framework under which the stranger (foreigner, immigrant, refugee) is theoretically located. By means of textual, intertextual, and extratextual readings of Antigone , the paper argues that it is politically and literarily possible to (re)invent her for strangers in the twenty-first century, that is, for those symbolically produced as not-legally locatable and who resignify their ambivalent ontological status between life and death as an alternative sociopolitical location of speech and action in equality with 'others.'
Keywords
- Antigone,
- Greek mythology,
- strangers,
- political theory
Publication Date
May, 2013
Citation Information
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro. "Antigone Claimed: 'I Am a Stranger!' Political Theory and the Figure of the Stranger" Hypatia Vol. 28 Iss. 2 (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andres_fabian_henao_castro/1/