Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / [edited by] Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bahun, Sanja.

Rajan, V. G. Julie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Literature.

Women and literature--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Women authors--20th century--Political and social views.

Women authors.

Myth in literature.

Violence in literature.

Myth in motion pictures.

Violence in motion pictures.

Political and social views.

Literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

Summary:

The nine essays of this volume contain in-depth analysis of works by women writers, with a focus on their treatment of women, gender, and the use of myth in rewriting traditional gender roles and stories. Among the works considered are Patricia Chao's The Monkey King, Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes, Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, and Eugenia Fakinou's The Seventh Garment. Two of the essays consider screenwriting and Indian cinema. The volume concludes with an original work, by Marina Warner, based on a sculpture of Lot's wife by Kiki Smith and the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: Cassandra's gift

Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society. "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner

Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong

The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic

"Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian

The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood

Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory. The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty

Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot

Making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi

Flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton

Part III. Instead of an afterword. Lot's wife / Kiki Smith

Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner

Cancellanda / Marina Warner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409400011

1409400018

OCLC:

694509759