Book chapter in Spanish

Gabriel Orozco, Untitled, 1999. Ticket, gouache, and pen on paper. 27,94 × 21,59 cm.
© The artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photograph: Cathy Carver.

Marios Chatziprokopiou and Alkisti Efthymiou, “‘Aunque nazca mil veces’: duelo en el futuro incesante entre Antígonas de América Latina,” in Reflexiones sobre la producción periférica de ideas, ed. by Luciano Concheiro San Vicente, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2024, pp. 195-228. Available on pdf here.

About this chapter
This chapter explores contemporary Latin American reinterpretations of Antigone, focusing on how the tragic heroine is transformed in response to the region’s histories of forced disappearance, state violence, and crisis neoliberalism. Through a comparative analysis of Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona Furiosa, Sara Uribe’s Antígona González, and Perla de la Rosa’s Antígona: Las voces que incendian el desierto, the chapter examines how these works reimagine mourning as a political act that resists closure and demands justice. Building on Moira Fradinger’s concept of the “rumination” of classical texts, Chatziprokopiou and Efthymiou argue that Latin American Antigones shift the focus from heroic sacrifice toward collective acts of survival and mourning without resolution as forms of political dissent.

About this book
This book explores various characteristics and challenges of idea production in the periphery, while respecting the concept’s inherent polysemy. Taken as a whole, the essays argue for the importance of studying ideas that emerge from the margins and, more broadly, critically highlight the effects of adopting a center/periphery framework within the field of intellectual history.