Cuando dialogan dos Antí­gonas: La tumba de Antí­gona de Marí­a Zambrano y Antí­gona furiosa de Griselda Gambaro

Abstract

Antigone has been a topical figure for more than 2,000 years. She plays a part in a story that one can always identify. Spanish Civil War and Argentine dictatorship saw the birth of many Antigones seeking justice. Starting from the M. Zambrano and G. Gambaro's creations, this work rehabilitates the speech and the incarnations of the Iberian and Ibero-american Antigone. On the one hand, Spanish philosopher Marí­a Zambrano never came out of the exodus which began in 1939, and she defended the values of the Republic all the way. Once she acknowledged that expatriation was irreversible, she entered a profound exile of which Antigone reveals the essence, going from "deprivation" to "revelation" in a philosophical as well as a poetical manner, both in her essays and in her unique play, La Tumba de Antí­gona [1967], a striking metaphor of the fratricidal war and of exile. On the other hand, Griselda Gambaro's Antí­gona furiosa [1986] rewrites Sophocles' tragedy which denounces Argentine state terrorism in a vigorous revival of a furious Antigone. At a time sister and mother of the missing of the Dirty War, she claims her cry for justice in the name of human brotherhood