Oidipon Kakon: Deconstructing the Gendered Biopolitics of Antigone
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This paper seeks to advance a close reading of Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of contemporary biopolitics. Drawing mainly on Roberto Esposito’s biopolitics and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer and the zone of indistinction, this paper complicates the traditional reading of Antigone as typifying the conflict between human and divine law. I aim not only to further a theoretical analysis but also to enrich a literary understanding of how modern day biopolitics may be applied to premodern texts. My reading of Esposito and Agamben focuses on the gendered dimension of biopolitics, specifically as it applies to the context of Antigone and Antigone’s punishment as ordered by Creon. I argue that Antigone’s body itself presents an immunological threat to the sovereign order of Thebes, and by refusing to include this inhuman, apolitical body within the polis, Creon’s decision to put Antigone to death paradoxically invites the contagion of death upon the city.
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This paper seeks to advance a close reading of Sophocles’ Antigone through the lens of contemporary biopolitics. Drawing mainly on Roberto Esposito’s biopolitics and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer and the zone of indistinction, this paper complicates the traditional reading of Antigone as typifying the conflict between human and divine law. I aim not only to further a theoretical analysis but also to enrich a literary understanding of how modern day biopolitics may be applied to premodern texts. My reading of Esposito and Agamben focuses on the gendered dimension of biopolitics, specifically as it applies to the context of Antigone and Antigone’s punishment as ordered by Creon. I argue that Antigone’s body itself presents an immunological threat to the sovereign order of Thebes, and by refusing to include this inhuman, apolitical body within the polis, Creon’s decision to put Antigone to death paradoxically invites the contagion of death upon the city.
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