Demanding Witness
Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20031368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erika Weiberg (0000-0001-6583-387X, Duke University, corresponding author), Erika L Weiberg (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Theater Studies, Duke University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Demanding Witness (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780197747322.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4392054059 |
| Open Library | OL49311052M |
| ISBN | 9780197747322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 134 |
Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, and Euripides’ Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, this book examines how and why female characters’ expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and suppressed by other characters and sometimes by the plot of the play itself. Demanding Witness argues that tragic representations of female noncombatants’ trauma after war expose the ripple effects of violence that wars create, even for individuals and communities distant from the fighting. Yet female characters’ trauma is also difficult to recognize and address because doing so challenges social hierarchies and ingrained power structures. As a result, these characters’ testimonies bring about a conflict of witnessing for other characters and the audience. By shifting focus to the returning hero’s wife and the women he enslaves, Demanding Witness calls attention to the detrimental effects of structural and chronic forms of trauma in addition to trauma caused by discrete, catastrophic events. Demanding Witness argues that recognizing women’s trauma in these tragedies requires questioning how Greek society was organized through hierarchies that privilege the hero’s story of trauma and recovery to the exclusion of other types of stories and experiences
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| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |