Spatial Dimensions in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González. Hybridisms, Marginalities and Transgressions

Abstract

This paper focuses on the study of the spatial dimensions in Antígona González (2012), by Sara Uribe. The piece, created as a rewriting of Sophocles' classic play, brings to our times the core problem of the original work to place it in the current climate of violence and disappearances in Mexico. This adaptation highlights the similarities and differences between the two works, while revealing the hybridism and specificity of this creole Antigone. Based on a brief review of theoretical literature by Janus Slawinski (1989), Elisabeth Bronfen (1986) and Ottmar Ette (1995; 2008), an analysis is presented of the textual, geographical and metaphorical dimensions of the piece, as well as of how each of these dimensions relates, respectively, to the dramatic, narrative and poetic aspects developed throughout the text. A global or comprehensive understanding of the piece as a whole is thus provided.