Abstract
The presentation of the Other in Greek theatre revolves around
women, barbarians, slaves, Persians, and Spartans. This paper is an attempt
at exploring Medea's status as an exile in Athens. In Euripides’ play, Medea
emerges as a metic, an anti-citizen of the polis. She defies her father, King
Aetes, murders her brothers and pledges allegiance to Jason. Her selfimposed exile, subsequent immigration from Cochlis, and marriage to Jason
of the Argonauts have granted her the status of a metic. Her magical origin
as a Cochlis barbarian time and again places her outside the center and
alienates her from Corinthian citizenship. This paper will additionally focus
on exilic poetics; the rift between the self and its real home in search of a
utopian space. This paper aims at analyzing the tactics Medea employs to
de/re-territorialize herself in Greece in search of this utopia. This research
will explore Medea's subsequent efforts of becoming a body without organs,
creating a discourse beyond language, her position as a nomad, and
existence in the plane of immanence where all that drives her is desire. Her
endeavors to posit herself in retrospect of the potentiality of violence and
her precarious position will be examined. Medea longs for a non-place to
belong to.
Zainab Nasim, Khurshid Alam, Rizwan Akhtar. (2020) OF A "DIFFERENT KIND": THE POETICS OF EXILIC UTOPIA IN EURIPIDES' MEDEA, Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 01.
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