Journal article
On Antigone's suffering
- Abstract:
- Examining the contestation of interpretations around this work, I argue that the proliferation of exegetical material on Sophocles’s Antigone is related to a noncomprehension of the human motives behind her transgressive action. Did she ever love, and is there any suffering in her piety? If she didn’t love (her brother), could she have suffered? I read the play alongside Kamila Shamsie’s postcolonial rewriting of it in Home Fire to elaborate on the relationship between personal loss and collective (and communal) suffering, particularly as it is focalized in the novel by the figure of a young woman who is both a bereaved twin and a vengeful fury.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/pli.2021.3
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry More from this journal
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 214 - 231
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-02
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2052-2614
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1151267
- Local pid:
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pubs:1151267
- Deposit date:
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2020-12-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Ankhi Mukherjee
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- ©2021 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press at: 10.1017/pli.2021.3
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