Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 24 | 2022
Research Article | Antigone Power: A Foreigner on the Borders of Europe
Abstract
In many respects, classics may be considered as a language, that was aptly used to legitimate the imperialist exploitation of white people over the so called “Third World countries”. My paper is aimed at understanding whether and to which extent the Greco-Roman Antiquity as such can become a tool for telling a submerged history and for bringing forth its non hegemonic subjects. I will take into consideration a collective experience conducted by a theatre company in the south of Italy during the summer of 2018. Through a workshop involving immigrant people in the city of Palermo, Ali Farah, a Somali-Italian writer, staged an experimental rewriting of Sophocles’ Antigone, which starts from the telling of personal stories of migration through the Mediterranean sea. Grounding my analysis in the comparison between Antigone’s defiance of the power and the crossing of borders, I will underline the revolutionary message that the rewriting of this myth in contemporary Fortress Europe delivers.
Submitted: July 14, 2022 | Accepted: Oct. 17, 2022 | Published Dec. 19, 2022 | Language: it
Keywords Borders • Citizenship • Classics • Migration • Post-colonial
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ECF_article_9929 |
dc.title |
Antigone Power: A Foreigner on the Borders of Europe |
dc.contributor.author |
De Luca Gaia |
dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Research Article |
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it |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2022/1/antigone-power-una-straniera-alle-frontiere-delleu/ |
dc.description.abstract |
In many respects, classics may be considered as a language, that was aptly used to legitimate the imperialist exploitation of white people over the so called “Third World countries”. My paper is aimed at understanding whether and to which extent the Greco-Roman Antiquity as such can become a tool for telling a submerged history and for bringing forth its non hegemonic subjects. I will take into consideration a collective experience conducted by a theatre company in the south of Italy during the summer of 2018. Through a workshop involving immigrant people in the city of Palermo, Ali Farah, a Somali-Italian writer, staged an experimental rewriting of Sophocles’ Antigone, which starts from the telling of personal stories of migration through the Mediterranean sea. Grounding my analysis in the comparison between Antigone’s defiance of the power and the crossing of borders, I will underline the revolutionary message that the rewriting of this myth in contemporary Fortress Europe delivers. |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Il Tolomeo |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 24 | December 2022 |
dc.issued |
2022-12-19 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2022-10-17 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2022-07-14 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-5975 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/021 |
dc.peer-review |
yes |
dc.subject |
Borders |
dc.subject |
Citizenship |
dc.subject |
Classics |
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Migration |
dc.subject |
Post-colonial |
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