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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brabon, Benjamin A., 1977-

Genz, Stéphanie, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic literature--History and criticism.

Gothic literature.

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

English literature.

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

American literature.

Feminism in literature.

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Physical Description:

x, 189 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Postfeminist Gothic addresses and explores the intersection of two much debated and controversial concepts: postfeminism and Gothic. This edited collection of original and exciting essays introduces a contentious new category that re-invigorates and challenges Gothic and feminist criticism, it raises a set of questions involved in this critical positioning: What does a 'post'-ing of feminism imply? How does the modifier 'postfeminist' change Gothic and, by extension, what does the notion of 'postfeminist Gothic' infer? Examining a wide range of Gothic texts, from Ann Radcliffe's romances to modern horror film, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism, the essays in this collection provide a site for exchange and debate, foregrounding the conflicts, contradictions and ambiguities evoked by 'postfeminist Gothic'.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

023000542X

9780230005426

OCLC:

74522322