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This post show how Sophocles’ Antigone shapes 21st-century literature, theater, visual art, and political theory. It surveys major literary adaptations across genres, including Giannina Braschi’s mixed-genre epic tragedy Putinoika, Anne Carson’s experimental verse play Antigonick, Kamila Shamsie’s political novel Home Fire, Seamus Heaney’s verse drama The Burial at Thebes, and Sophie Deraspe’s...