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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviated Titles
1 Introduction: The Shadowy Others of Antigone's Legacy
2 Antigone's Liminality: Hegel's Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery
Hegel's Prohibition of Slavery as a Tragic Topic
Sculpting Antigone's Ethics from the Gods of Nature
The Simplicity, Solidity, and Plasticity of Tragic Heroes in a Pre-Legal Era
Art Must Be Purer than Life
3 The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa: The Island
The Incessant Renaissance of Antigone
Performative and Political Reflections on Greek Tragedy
Intervening in Fetishistic Readings of Antigone
Antigone's "False Titties": The Island
Concluding Remarks
4 Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece: Multiplying and Racializing Genealogies in Tegonni: An African Antigone
Butler and Mader: Making Polynices Only a Brother
Citizens, Substitutes, and Slaves
A Story to Pass On? Antigone's Mythological African Sister, Tegonni
5 Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray: The Fetishistic Ruses of Sovereignty in Contemporary Politics
6 Concluding Reflections: What If Oedipus or Polynices Had Been Slaves?
Synopses of The Island and Tegonnis
Notes
Bibliography
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