Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship--and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231118945
• ISBN13: 9780231118941
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher