Something Mythic’
The power of shared stories in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936547 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clara Shaw Hardy (Carleton College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-329 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Classical Receptions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-5134 • E-ISSN: 1759-5142 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/crj/clae005 |
| OpenAlex | W4399106019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
Kamila Shamsie’s (2017) novel Home Fire draws on Sophocles’ Antigone for its plot, but neither requires familiarity with, nor explicitly references, the tragedy. This article attempts to build a specific case for the effects of attending to the intertext by focusing on Shamsie’s complex treatment of Antigone’s punishment and its consequences in Sophocles. Reading the novel’s denouement in conversation with that of the tragedy suggests questions about higher authority and checks on political power in the world of the novel. I argue that shared stories in the novel exert a force analogous to that of Sophocles’ gods in that they authorize moral judgments; attention to the intertext enacts the same experience for readers of the novel that shared stories do for characters within the novel
Art · Literature · Physics · Power (physics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · History
Redeeming the text
Expatriation, Belonging, and the Politics of Burial
Antigone for the Age of Terror
Familiarity and Recognition
“He Wants Me to Bring Him Home, Even in the Form of a Shell”
On Antigone’s Suffering
The Politics of Gesture in Sophocles' Antigone
Antigone, Deportee
Whose Antigone
Towards an ethics of reading Muslims
Materializing grief
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |