José Watanabe’s Antígona: a poetical rewriting of political violence in Peru at the end of the 20th century

Chueca L.F. · Literatura y Linguistica (2023) · DOI: 10.29344/0717621x.48.3481

Resumen

The article studies the poetic rewriting carried out by José Watanabe of Sophocles’ Antigone, emphasizing two dimensions: the operations of absorption and transformation that lead to the final text, and the particular reading of this Antigone from the context of its publication. In dialogue with concepts such as rewriting and dialogism (Bakhtin), memory (Jelin) and violence (Žižek), the analysis confirms that the new meanings that this Antigone incorporates proposes fundamental questions and demands in relation to the process of violence and dictatorship that was lived in Peru, as well as the historical reasons that contributed to its unleashing. From this, Antigone implicity highlights the need to intervene, from poetry and art, in the life of the country, and symbolically begins a new stage in the development of poetry on the internal armed conflict.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú