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Postfeminist gothic :

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Postfeminist gothic :

[Book]

critical interventions in contemporary culture /

edited by Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz.

Basingstoke :

Palgrave Macmillan,

©2007.

x, 189 pages ;

22 cm

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: postfeminist gothic / Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz -- Dark departures: contemporary women's writing after the gothic / Lucie Armitt -- Neo-splatter: Bride of Chucky and the horror of heteronormativity / Judith Halberstam -- Bite-size pieces: disassembling the gothic villain in Witchblade / Rhonda V. Wilcox -- The spectral phallus: re-membering the postfeminist man / Benjamin A. Brabon -- (Re)making the body beautiful: postfeminist cinderellas and gothic tales of transformation / Stéphanie Genz -- The Stepford wives: what's a living doll to do in a postfeminist world? / Anne Williams -- The postfeminist filmic female gothic detective: reading the bodily text in Candyman / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Moving beyond waste to celebration: the postcolonial/postfeminist gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A habit of waste" / Gina Wisker -- George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: sublimity, pain, possibility / Donna Heiland -- Sensibility gone mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the heroine of sensibility / Claire Knowles -- She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact / Linda Dryden -- Flight of the heroine / Fred Botting.

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Explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two much debated and contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This edited collection of original 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.

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Feminism in literature.

Gothic literature-- History and criticism.

Horror films-- History and criticism.

17.86 literary genres, theory of genre.

American literature.

Amerikansk litteratur-- historia-- 1900-talet.

Engelsk litteratur-- historia-- 1900-talet.

Englisch

English literature.

Feminism in literature.

Feminisme.

Feminismus

Film.

Gothic literature.

Gothic Revival (letterkunde)

Hjältinnor.

Horror films.

Horrorfilm

Horrorliteratur

Kvinnofrigörelse i litteraturen.

Litteraturvetenskap.

Populärkultur-- kritik-- skräck-- feminism-- Storbritannien-- Förenta staterna-- 1970-talet-- 1980-talet-- 1990-talet-- sekelskiftet 2000.

Postmodernism-- identitet-- postfeminism.

Skräcklitteratur-- historia-- 1900-talet.

Englisch.

Großbritannien

USA

USA.

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DSBH

LIT

Brabon, Benjamin A.

Genz, Stephanie.

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