Antigona González by

"She will not stop looking and repeats her search, her questions, her loss, until the disappeared body she loves reappears, whether dead or alive."

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"Throughout history the figure of Antigone has represented the invisible, unheard voices of those prevented from mourning the people taken away from them."

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Group 1

2024-09-16 17:42:03 UTC

"Throughout history the figure of Antigone has represented the invisible, unheard voices of those prevented from mourning the people taken away from them"

"'I' behaves as a word and a letter, acknowledging the individual/collective pain experienced by thousands."

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Group 1

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"Chihuahua, Chihuahua, April 17. A four year old child was found dead. His mother had reported him disappeared on April 6"

Group 1

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"Through the multitude of voices bound together in the “I,” appropriation becomes a positive force, honest to both difference and commonality. No one is spoken for, as the “I” functions as a kind of limbo, wherein people can speak, read, and extend themselves to one another."

"Wasn't there a plague in the city? Weren't useless prayers said to the gods?"

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-page 105

Group 1

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" I pray for your missing body to be granted justice. For it to be granted a name. I pray I'll have a place to go to cry. I pray for those who are good and for the others, because even if they have no heart, I do" pg 37

"Tadeo Gonzalez. Absent. Tadeo Gonzalez. Absent. Tadeo Gonzalez. Absent."

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-pg 83

Group 3

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"Importantly, this letter-word, 'I' -- a stand-in for a speaking, searching, present body -- is made to speak by an absent body."

Group 1

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"How do we understand this strange place between life and death, of speaking precisely from that vacillating boundary?"

a symbol of death/grief/injustice for many people

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Group 1

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In both this text and the play, Antigone represents all people who cannot speak up. She is the shield and the sword.

Group 3

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"'What thing is the body when it's lost?' A memory and a description?"

"To be conscious of the number of deaths related to the violence in the country, of the number of kidnappings and forced disappearances is not a comfortable enterprise; it is a painful and urgent task."

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Group 3

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"The absurd, the exhausting, the urgent labor of unburying a body to bury it anew. To confirm out loud what is so feared, so desired: yes sir, agent, yes sir, police officer, this body is mine."

"What I do know is that literary texts, language, can summon us to be in pain together, to cry with another person about their loved ones' lost lives or disappeared bodies, to accompany them in their search and in their demand for justice..."

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Group 3

2024-09-16 17:58:28 UTC

"There are some who search as a way to refuse to remain in silence to which they've been relegated."

Group 3

2024-09-16 17:59:55 UTC

Antigone takes her power back by telling the king that she would be proven right if he kills her or not. This is the same with writing the book. If the government acknowledges the missing people or not the author and the families still prove the point that there is a large problem.

Group 1

2024-09-16 18:00:01 UTC

"What is not named vanishes, what is not exposed publicly is diluted, is rendered invisible"

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"What I do know is that literary texts, language, can summon us to be in pain together, to cry with another person about their loved one' lost lives or disappeared bodies, to accompany them in their search and in their demand for justice, to come to terms with the fact that the missing bodies and their violence deaths of our country have something to do with us, that we cannot remain indifferent, as if nothing were happening"

"Killing of Noe Ramos Ferretiz in Tamaulipas and of Alberto Garcia in Oaxaca brings to 17 the number of slain candidates ahead of June 2 polls."

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Group 1

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"The Femsa corporation, which operates Mexico’s largest chain of convenience stores, announced late last week that it was closing all of its Oxxo stores due to gang problems."

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Group 2

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"They say while in Tamaulipas, she was kidnapped for ransom."

Group 1

2024-09-16 18:05:53 UTC

The concealment of bodies is common practice, above all in the in the context of armed conflict and dictatorship, but the job of burying bodies is not physical, as they are also erased at the level of discourse, that is to say, in language itself.

"An international security expert told the outlet that the region was formerly dominated by the Zetas drug cartel, which was known for its violent tactics."

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