The Justice of Narration: The Case of Antígonas Tribunal de Mujeres

Abstract

Antígonas Tribunal de Mujeres (2013) is a play that emerges from the collective work between artists and women victims of the Colombian state. In this article, I argue that Antígonas Tribunal is a representation that self-reflects on the concept of justice as I discuss the possibility of its transformation and materialization through narration. First, I will analyze how the concept of justice in the play is quite distant from retribution and punishment in Hegelian terms. Then, I will examine the point of view of the female narrators and the use of objects to assemble their individual stories, which make up the entire play, in order to establish a relationship between these narrative elements with the process of memory construction and the notion of justice proposed in Antígonas Tribunal.