Race and Reception: Sophocles’ Antigone and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire
at Lecture by Arum Park (University of Arizona). Gilman 108 Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire reimagines Sophocles’ Antigone as a story of a British Muslim family whose religious and ethnic alterity becomes a source of conflict within the family and without. Her adaptation both cleaves to and departs from its Sophoclean model in ways that shed […]