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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcestis - in Brazilian literature and stage performance. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, some of them great names of Brazilian literature, such as Jorge Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues, who are influential in this specific area of classical reception and well known by modern audiences. This unique volume is the product of collaboration of many scholars with different affiliations under the coordination of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), two of the most prestigious universities in Brazil for the study of Classical and Reception Studies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Maria de Fátima Silva and Tereza Virgínia Barbosa Part 1: Rewriting Ancient Greek Myths Section 1: Antigone 1 Antigone’s Myth in Brazilian Theater: Brief Notes Renato Cândido da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo 2 Antigone – the Eternal Return Gilson Moraes Motta 3 Pedreira das Almas (Quarry of the Souls), by Jorge Andrade Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza 4 As Confrarias (The Fraternities) by Jorge Andrade: A Path to Freedom Andreia Garavello Martins and Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão 5 Maria das Almas, by Rodrigo Estramanho de Almeida. A Tropical and Vicentian Antigone Carlos Morais 6 Ismene, the Princess of Thebes and the (Post-)modern Páthos Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa Section 2: Medea 7 Castro Alves: Medea in the Slave Quarters Carlos Eduardo de Souza Lima Gomes and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa 8 Nelson Rodrigues’ Anjo Negro (Black Angel) or the Mirror Image of Euripides’ Medea Sônia Aparecida dos Anjos 9 “I Killed Your Children, I Felt Hatred and Passion for You”: Euripides in Rodrigues Fernando Santoro Moreira 10 Submission and Transgression: A Black Medea in Brazil Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, Marcos Antônio Alexandre and Adélia Silva Carvalho 11 Drop of Water Euripides’ Medea and Its Brazilian Adaptation: A Brief Comparison Luisa Severo Buarque de Holanda 12 From Exile to Exile: A Dialogue between Euripides and Clara de Góes in the Play Medea en Promenade Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo 13 Jocy de Oliveira’s Medea: A Poetic Gesture by a Strange Foreigner – Kseni Fábio Henrique Viana, Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva and Manuela Ribeiro Barbosa Section 3: Electra 14 Electra in Terra Incognita: An Analysis of Lady of the Drowned by Nelson Rodrigues Antonio Carlos Hirsch Section 4: Perfect Heroines: Alcestis 15 The Invisible Power of Death. Let the Lady in, by Jacyntho Lins Brandão Jorge Deserto Section 5: Bacchae 16 Recycling and Profanation in the Dramatic Aesthetics of Flávia, Cabeça, Tronco e Membros (Flavia, Head, Trunk and Limbs) by Millôr Fernandes Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa and Alice Carvalho Diniz Leite Part 2: Translating and Performing the Classics 17 Convergent Interpretations in Divergent Translations: Brazilian Translations of Antigone and the Juridical Reading of the Play Flávia Almeida Vieira Resende and Ana Ribeiro Grossi Araújo 18 The Construction of Antigone in Klássico (com K) (Klassic (with K)): A Dialogical Process Flávia Almeida Vieira Resende and Sara del Carmen Rojo de la Rosa 19 Reading, Translating and Staging Antigone with the Help of Hölderlin’s Insights Kathrin Rosenfield 20 Translating Antigone for a Brazilian Stage Production Lawrence Flores Pereira 21 Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz (Look at Us Here Again): Utopia and Contradiction in the Voices of Passion and Death in Antigone and Medea Felipe Cordeiro and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa 22 A Contemporary Medeia by Fátima Saadi: A Pop-culture Adaptation Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza 23 DeadzoneMedea and the Experimental Space of Misery Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza 24 The Dynamics of a Brazilian Collective Appropriation of Euripides’ Medea: The ΤRUΠΕRSΑ Experiment Maria António Hörster and Delfim F. Leão 25 Transgression/Tribute: Love … (Anti-academic Pro-witchcraft Manifesto without Conceptual Rigor of my Western Side That Is Unknown to Euripides) Sara Rojo and Felipe Cordeiro 26 From Aeschylus’ Oresteia to the Brazilian Oresteia of 2012–2013: The Translation and Reinvention of the Tragedy Alexandre Costa Conclusion Selected Bibliography and References Index
