Antigone re-imagined: uprooted women’s political narratives

In this article I am thinking with Antigone, a political figuration that has been invested many readings, interpretations and artistic expressions in feminist theory beyond. The draws on research project of listening to migrant refugee women’s narratives displacement travelling. What connects these stories via the figure Antigone is desire tell their as an expression will rewrite exclusion from oppressive regimes, defend choice civil disobedience, grasp passage, claim right have rights affirm determination for new beginnings. argue uprooted follow Arendtian tripartite schema action by intervening ethics politics forced choices, becoming spectators impossible actions inscribing mnemonic traces emerging decolonial histories genealogies.