https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/768 Numéros fr ven., 12 janv. 2024 15:34:55 +0100 mar., 30 avril 2024 14:48:17 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/768 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/769 ven., 12 janv. 2024 15:36:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/769 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/775 ven., 12 janv. 2024 15:51:52 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/775 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/776 ven., 12 janv. 2024 15:58:12 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/776 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/965 This article attempts to wrest Medea from a reading focused only on the tragic. Medea is the “historical” name of a woman who suffers all the consequences of war. What to do in this torment? Medea either suffers her condition or turns into a lioness (Euripides, Mishima) and goes off to war. Her war is, however, like all ‘wars of the poor’, a war of liberation (Pasolini, Olavo). Medea also suggests the possibility of a definitive exit from the world of war created by patriarchy and imperialism: a permanent wandering on the chariot of the Sun (Giordano Bruno). mar., 16 janv. 2024 08:38:38 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/965 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/969 The figure of Medea is proposed as one of symbolic exchange, essential for establishing a civilisation pact between women and men. In the first part, the text of Medea is interpreted by reporting Euripides' position in relation to hser character, followed by the relationship between Medea and the other women in this tragedy. In the second part, two figures that can be derived from Medea for a symbolic exchange are taken into consideration. One is anger, which triggers several moments of feminism. The other relates her to the many ways that feminine divine presents itself, including the aspect of a violent generator of transformation. mar., 16 janv. 2024 09:16:09 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/969 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/974 This article is about the status of myths in contemporary Western societies, on how myths have withered and degraded into stories and shows; how the sublime monster of the myth has become either a pallid criminal or a feminist heroine, that is a character that belongs to the chronicle of the darkest of current events. Medea has lost her panache – she has become an infamous woman – in reference to Foucault’s “infamous men”. mar., 16 janv. 2024 10:49:52 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/974 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/981 Despite the appearances by which she has often been held captive, the figure of Medea can be read as an expression of absolute love. In particular, what emerges from a reading of Euripides' tragedy is what we might call the unrelenting cruel nature of love. In the frightening gesture with which she gives death to her children, the dismissal of the logic of power is intertwined with a paradoxical expression of love, for which giving death can sometimes represent the only possible gesture of care. mar., 16 janv. 2024 11:08:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/981 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/986 The contribution presents Nietzsche’s critique of Euripides and considers whether it can also be applied to the case of Medea. In particular, it tests whether a possible, paradoxical political charge of the priestess of Colchis, linked to the theme of exile, is not able to carry Euripides’ tragedy beyond the boundaries of the polis. mar., 16 janv. 2024 11:33:09 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/986 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/991 This article aims to interpret the myth of Medea as an experience of strangeness based on a nietzschean understanding of the experience. Indeed, Medea is able to disturb our « pulsional configuration », which means shifting the balance power and overturning the way of organizing our human experience. To achieve this, we propose to follow four artistic interpretations of this myth: Medea in the Pasolini’s and Seneca’s works, the staging of the Cherubini’s opera by Krzysztof Warlikowski, and Medea Stimmen of Christa Wolf. mar., 16 janv. 2024 11:58:06 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/991 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/997 The symbolism of light and darkness has accompanied the Medea myth since its origins and becomes structuring in some of its versions, as for example in Pasolini's film. This article proposes a reading of the story of Medea in terms of her choice, explicit in Corrado Alvaro's work, to renounce all forms of power by a movement of withdrawal towards the darkness, which is not the darkness of the forces of evil evoked by certain authors, such as Seneca or Corneille, but on the contrary a form of non-violence. mar., 16 janv. 2024 16:14:35 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/997 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1002 mer., 17 janv. 2024 09:08:47 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1002 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1003 mer., 17 janv. 2024 10:06:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1003 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1005 mer., 17 janv. 2024 10:32:05 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1005 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1006 mer., 17 janv. 2024 10:41:34 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1006 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1008 mer., 17 janv. 2024 11:48:36 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1008 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1010 mer., 17 janv. 2024 13:42:13 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1010 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1012 mer., 17 janv. 2024 14:34:19 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1012 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1014 mer., 17 janv. 2024 15:23:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1014 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1016 mer., 17 janv. 2024 16:08:39 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1016 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1018 Medea, in Christa Wolf’s version is liberated from the functional, archetypal trait of the wild feminine fury that overflows into infanticide. The essay presents also how in Wolf’s Medea shows the literary outcomes of a new feminist atmosphere, as it matures between the Eighties and Nineties of the Twentieth century. A laboratory of alternative civilizations, shared by those feminisms that take seriously the opportunities to radically redefine the criteria of human coexistence and its productions. mer., 17 janv. 2024 16:38:08 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1018 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1023 The performance Medea material by Mapa Teatro (1991) stages Heiner Müller’s re-writing of the Medea myth, Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape With Argonauts. I analyse Mapa Teatro’s new montage of Müller’s text while also focusing on the aesthetics of this hybrid musical-theatrical performance, which challenge the (Western) theatrical reference. Using a decolonial perspective, I discuss how text and performance relate to colonial tensions and resonate with decolonial epistemologies. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 10:02:33 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1023 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1030 Franca Rame and Dario Fo’s Medea is analysed with specific attention to its problematical positioning towards Italian feminism in the ‘70s and to Franca Rame’s self-assertion, as a woman in relation to a man, a process Rame accomplishes in those years by choosing to assert herself as an actress and an author. In the various forms of feminism present in Italy at that time, the sacrifice of motherhood by Medea and her opposition to the existing laws may echo feminist custom and texts which question her stand on the issue of gender. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 10:59:25 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1030 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1040 This essay engages with Franca Rame’s re-writing and performance of the myth of Medea through the lens of an Agambean theoretical framework. More specifically, I put Rame’s Medea in dialogue with two of her other “obscenely tragic” monologues, Maria alla croce (from Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo), and Io, Ulrike grido, to show how the Italian playwright/actress envisions the destituent power of a female subjectivity that she re-imagines as a “perpetually construed and constructable” process. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 13:36:07 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1040 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1046 In these two rewritings of the myth, Medea is a housewife, pregnant with her third child, dedicated to home and family and a foreigner who arrived in Italy with the dream of a better future, imprisoned in a prostitution racket by the man she loves and who becomes the father of her twins. For both Medeas, infanticide becomes an extreme act of liberation from society’s control over women through the ethics of care; a way to de-moralize gender and deconstruct the notion of femininity. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 14:02:10 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1046 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1049 Among the many adapters of Euripides' Medea there is also the Sicilian playwright Emma Dante (1967-). The present study provides a key to interpreting the corresponding unpublished text, which over the years has acted as a service text for the staging of Medea or Verso Medea in Italian and French theatres. It reflects on the contiguity of this adaptation with the poetics of bestiality that Dante created with her work, where she implements a deconstruction of the (Sicilian) family and a reflection on the indissoluble link between life and death. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 14:32:39 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1049 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1055 The aim of the text is to propose a reading of the Greek tragedy Medea starting from Jacques Derrida's thought. The stakes of this work are not limited to applying some key elements of deconstruction to the figure of Medea. Above all, the essay aims to show how the story of this barbarian woman from Colchis can embody and clarify some fundamental concepts proposed by Derrida to rethink the dimension of the political. Medea is a figure very close to what in Derrida's philosophy is called The Other and her story, narrated by Euripides, gives an idea of the extreme and provocative character that always belongs to absolute hospitality. jeu., 18 janv. 2024 15:25:47 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1055