Accésit in the IX Premio de Investigación a Tesis Doctorales Iberoamericana a una tesis de HISTAGRA

The thesis of HISTAGRA researcher Antonella Sturla Meilán "Antígona: memorias y resistencias. Lanas representaciones de él mito en lanas teatralidades a ambos lados de él Atlántico", directed by the Group's PI Ana Cabana Iglesia and María Xesús Nogueira Pereira, has been recognised with the Accésit in the IX Ibero-American Doctoral Thesis Research Award, granted by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation.

The thesis was read in 2023 and was awarded the maximum mark of  one Laude by the tribunal formed by Pablo Piedras (president), Dolores Vilavedra Fernández (secretary) and Roberto Pascual Rodríguez (member). The research is part of the PhD programme in Cultural Studies: Memory, Identity, Territory and Language of the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Université de Haute-Bretagne (Rennes II) (France).

The thesis proposes a journey through plays that take up the myth of Antigone to update it in the theatrical rituality, recontextualising the mythological primordial time in a precise socio-historical moment, with the aim of wielding a tool for denouncing the Latin American dictatorships and the Spanish Civil War. The analysis of the dramatic texts promotes a dialogue between Latin America and Spain, mainly between Buenos Aires and Galicia, based on a reading of gender proposed as a transversal axis and the comparative study of the thematic triad power-resistance-memory to account for the way in which the various versions of Antigone staged the silenced abuses and vindicated the place of theatre as a mechanism associated with the preservation of collective memory.

Available at:

https://minerva.usc.es/entities/publication/52128aee-2c89-458a-89d0-6263b93f4702