In the prologue of her Antigonick, Anne Carson harks back to Ingeborg Bachmann’s verse “I lose my screams,” and states: “Dear Antigone, / I take it as the task of the translator / to forbid you should ever lose your screams.” Taking these references as a vantage point, Chatziprokopiou will investigate recent re-inscriptions of Antigone in Latin American dramaturgy and performance, in close connection to the process of translating these Antígones into Modern Greek and to contemporary Greek performances. How and in which particular contexts does Antigone’s lament get reinvented? How and to what extent can such reinventions mourn disappeared bodies? Which lives are in each case considered to be grievable, and which ones are displaced from the official sphere of memorability? And further, how can we look at these laments—and at their multiform translations—as embodied acts of resistance?

This seminar is co-sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies. Click here to register and receive the seminar link.

Image: Goodbye Lindita, Mario Banushi (dir.), National Theatre Experimental Stage, Athens 2023.