Postfeminist gothic : critical interventions in contemporary culture / edited by Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz.

Other author Brabon, Benjamin A., 1977-
Other author Genz, Stéphanie, 1976-
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionx, 189 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Gothic literature--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.
Horror films--History and criticism.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN023000542X (hbk.)
ISBN9780230005426 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PR149.P68P67 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold