https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/966 Entrées d’index fr 0 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 mer., 17 avril 2024 08:38:43 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/965 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 jeu., 15 févr. 2024 13:42:19 +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 The present study provides a key to interpreting the corresponding unpublished text, which over the years has acted as a service text for the staging of Medea or Verso Medea in Italian and French theatres.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 jeu., 18 janv. 2024 15:08:28 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1049 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 mer., 17 janv. 2024 16:38:20 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1018 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 mar., 16 janv. 2024 16:15:58 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/997 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 mar., 16 janv. 2024 09:16:21 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/969