Correcting Sophocles? Feminine perspective in the "Antigone"-adaptations of María Zambrano and Grete Weil
Abstract
In addition to the canonized adaptations of the myth of Antigone by Anouilh and Brecht, other versions by women-authors who were victims of the repression of authoritarian regimes appeared. The texts of the Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (La tumba de Antígona, 1967) and the Jewish-German author Grete Weil (Meine Schwester Antigone, 1980) are examples of this. In the field of feminist criticism, the figure of Antigone also served as an inspiration to reflect on the position of women within patriarchal society, as shown by Woolf, Irigaray and Butler. Based on the concept of “myth correction” (Vöhler/Seidensticker/Emmerich), the aim is to determine to what extent it is possible to identify this feminist imprint in the works of Zambrano and Weil. For this purpose, the conditions of Antigone's death will be analysed, paying special attention to the combination of suicide and virginity.
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