Events / “Decolonial reading: the case of Latin American Antígonas”
Moira Fradinger

“Decolonial reading: the case of Latin American Antígonas”

October 18, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

282 Lillis Hall, 955 E. 13th Ave., Eugene, OR 97403

Moira Fradinger is Associate Professor in the department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She grew up in four South American countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela. A native speaker of Spanish, she is also proficient in French, Italian and Portuguese. She is the author of Binding Violence: Literary Visions of Political Origins (Stanford UP, 2010) and of Antígonas: Writing From Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2023). She has written articles on Latin American film and literature, and on the reception of classical tragedy in Latin America. She has completed the translation project Antígonas Anthology, consisting of six 20th century Latin American vernacular Antígona plays translated into English, from Haiti, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Brazil. She has also translated poems and short stories from Spanish into English.