Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Breaking Apart: Greek Tragedy, Judith Butler, and Critique
	Breathing, Laughing, Politics
	The Unbearable and the Unlivable
	Butlerian Tragedy and the Writing of Critique
1 Infinite Heterology: Antigone
	Butler and “Antigone” Mendieta
	Antigone’s and Freud’s Auto-bio-thanatography
	The Underworld, Blackness, and Antigonean Self Abolition
	Morrison’s (and Butler’s) Autigone
2 Trans-parentality, Abortion, Social Ecology: Bacchae
	Reactionary Paranoia
	Trans-parental Troubles
	Somatechnics and Trans-deindividuation
	Enjambment and Watery Trans-corporeality
	Uncanny Births
	Gestational Melancholy and “Dismemberment Abortion”
	Furry Fugitivity
3 The Justice of Rage: Eumenides
	The Erinyes, Iphigenia, and the Force of Nonviolence
	Law and Violence
	Butler’s Aeschylus with Kafka, Benjamin, and Diop
	The Furies and Niobe
	Buccal Exscriptions
	Countermonumental Dikê
	Aeschylus and Audre Lorde
	Fury Blackness Breath
	Incandescent Abolition
Afterword Regarding Vengeance, Vulnerability, Grievability, and a Future for Israel-Palestine
	Law and Vengeance
	Vulnerability
	Grief and Grievability
	Vengeance—or Democracy?
Notes
Bibliography
Index