Samenvatting
This book explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This collection of original and exciting essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230005426
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Postfeminist Gothic; B.A.Brabon & S.Genz Dark Departures: Contemporary Women's Writing after the Gothic; L.Armitt Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity; J.Halberstam Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade ; R.V.Wilcox The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man; B.A.Brabon (Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation; S.Genz The Stepford Wives : What's a Living Doll to Do in a Post-feminist World?; A.Williams The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman ; D.Long Hoeveler Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's 'A Habit of Waste'; G.Wisker George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy : Sublimity, Pain, Possibility; D.Heiland Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility; C.Knowles She : Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact ; L.Dryden Flight of the Heroine; F.Botting Index