This project ‘Antigone’ is an archive project of traumatic histories of The Cold War Southeast Asia.

 

One of the oldest Greek tragedy 'Antigone' which written by Sophocles read from various angles in post-modern literary studies. Antigone was a philosophical contemplation about the existence of the state by the death of Antigone the inevitable result of the existence of the sovereign state. Anthropologist Heon-ik Kwon defined violent histories happened in Southeast Asian countries during the Cold War as "peripheral history of the Cold War" and those happened as an ambivalent political outcome from the global system of the late twentieth. In this perspective, survivors’ testimonies of the Cold War Southeast Asia are a significant historical matter that gives a deeper insight into the global system of the late twentieth which generation established the capitalism society that we are living today.