Grieving Bodies in Antígona González by Sara Uribe

Abstract

This paper analyzes Antígona González through the concept of disappropriation (Cristina Rivera Garza) to explain how Sara Uribe constructs a work of communal authorship in which, through total intertextuality, the text itself is conceived as a body with memory inhabited by grieving bodies. And these bodies, from Sophocles to Uribe, cry out for the reader to respond this question: “Will you join me in taking up the body?”.

Presenter Biography
Olga Salazar Pozos is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Minnesota. She has also collaborated as a researcher in the Observatory on Disappearances and Impunity in Mexico at the same institution, and her research focuses on the way contemporary Mexican writers and filmmakers are using art to denounce the human rights crisis in Mexico and to produce social activism.