Medea the Refugee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Demetra Kasimis (0000-0002-6251-7756, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 393-415 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670520000376 |
| OpenAlex | W3033702923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
This essay reads Euripides'sMedea, the tragedy of filicide, as a critical investigation into the making of a refugee. Alongside the common claim that the drama depicting a wife murdering her children to punish an unfaithful husband is about gender inequity, I draw out another dimension: that the text's exploration of women's subordination doubles as a rendering of refuge seeking. Euripides introduces Medea as aphugas, the term for a person exiled, on the run, displaced, vulnerable, and in need of refuge. I adopt thephugasas a lens for interpreting the tragedy and generating enduring insights into dynamics of “forced” migration. Taking this political predicament as the organizing question of the text enables us to understand how dislocation from the gender-structured family can produce physical displacement and a need for asylum while casting the political meaning of Medea's kin violence in a new light
Aesthetics · Art · Displaced person · Drama · Literature · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event · Wife · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
The Art of Euripides
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Toward an anthropology of women.
A Woman’s Place in Euripides’ Medea
Becoming Medea
The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy
States of Injury
Who Is Worthy of Protection
The Attack of the Blob
City of Suppliants
Reproducing the State
Immigrant Women in Athens
Intimate Commerce
Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama
Antigone, Interrupted
Transnational America
Gender in Refugee Law. From the Margins to the Centre
Autonomy of Asylum
Conflicting Authorities. Asylia between Secular and Divine Law in the Classical and Hellenistic Poleis
Ancient Supplication
Anxiety Veiled
Is There a Polis in Euripides’ Medea
Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy
Mapping the Margins
Pregnancy Envy and the Politics of Compensatory Masculinities
Citizenship in Question
Between Polis and Empire
Medea
Humanitarian Reason
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |