MARÍA ZAMBRANO’S ANTIGONE AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF A BROKEN LIFE
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Antigone, María Zambrano, Break, Jota MombaçaAbstract
This study links María Zambrano’s reinterpretation of Antigone to the concept of “break” developed by Jota Mombaça, with the aim of exploring the possibilities of a wounded life. The analysis begins with Zambrano’s tomb as a space of time, consciousness, and self-recognition; it then approaches “break” as an ethical-aesthetic condition of lives marked by historically and socially constituted wounds. It is argued that Antigone allows us to conceive of an existence in which the wound becomes presence, word, and resistance. In this way, the article relates the character’s tragic consciousness to the current problem of lives marked by familial, social, and political violence. Through this dialogue, the study seeks to demonstrate that a broken life can produce modes of enunciation and permanence in the face of forces that seek to silence it, without thereby turning pain into virtue or romanticizing the violence that permeates its historical, social, political, and symbolic constitution
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