Whose Antigone? -- Whose Antigone? -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviated Titles Cited in Text for Quick Reference -- 1: Introduction: The Shadowy Others of Antigone's Legacy -- 2: Antigone's Liminality: Hegel's Racial Purification of Tragedy and the Naturalization of Slavery -- Hegel's Prohibition of Slavery as a Tragic Topic -- Sculpting Antigone's Ethics from the Gods of "Nature" -- The Simplicity, Solidity, and Plasticity of Tragic Heroes in a Pre-Legal Era -- Art Must Be Purer than Life -- 3: The Performative Politics and Rebirth of Antigone in Ancient Greece and Modern South Africa: The Island -- The Incessant Renaissance of Antigone -- Performative and Political Reflections on Greek Tragedy -- Intervening in Fetishistic Readings of Antigone -- Antigone's "False Titties": The Island -- Concluding Remarks -- 4: Exempting Antigone from Ancient Greece: Multiplying and Racializing Genealogies in Tègònni: An African Antig one -- Butler and Mader: Making Polynices Only a Brother -- Citizens, Substitutes, and Slaves -- A Story to Pass On? Antigone's Mythological African Sister, Tègònni -- 5: Agamben, Antigone, Irigaray: The Fetishistic Ruses of Sovereignty in Contemporary Politics -- 6: Concluding Reflections: What If Oedipus or Polynices Had Been S laves? -- Synopses of The Island and Tègònni -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.