WILKINSON, Marta L., Antigone's Daughters. Gender, Family, and Expression in the Modern Novel, New York / Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / Oxford / Wien, Peter Lang (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature), 2008, 210 p.
ISBN 978-1-4331-0282-0
RÉSUMÉ
Antigone's Daughters presents various readings of the classicalmyth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist andpsychoanalytic literary theories. Topics such as femininity, education,and establishing selfhood amidst the restrictions of the patriarchalsociety presented by Sophocles provide the foundation for the modernnovel. This study serves as a model for the comparative interpretationof literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries includingthe writings of George Sand (Indiana), Karolina Pavlova (A Double Life), Nikolai Chernyshevsky (What Is to Be Done?), Emile Zola (L'Assommoir and Nana), María Luisa Bombal (La amortajada) and Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits).Each chapter isolates an aspect of Antigone's struggle within both thepublic and domestic spheres as she negotiates her independence andasserts her voice.
A valuable tool for the study of modernliterature, the universality of Antigone presented in this studyprompts the investigation of many classical motifs while providing athorough study of various national literatures within their owncontemporary contexts.
BIOGRAPHIE
Marta L. Wilkinson is Assistant Professor of English at WilmingtonCollege. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from theUniversity of California at Santa Barbara. Her works focus on modernFrench, Russian, and Latin American literatures.