Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds edited by Simon Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacon, Simon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

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Summary:

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change. With the rise of populism, the Alt. Right, and isolationism in world politics in the second decade of the 21st Century, parallel, purgatorial worlds seem to currently proliferate within popular culture across all media, including television shows and films such as franchise and liminal spaces in the work of David Mitchell, this book is an original, timely and hope-filled analysis about overcoming the confines of a patriarchal, fundamentalist world where the female imaginative might just be the last, best hope.

Contents:

Part I: Purgatorial Space 1.Particulate Matter: Miasma Theory, and Modern Horror. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Professor of English, Central Michigan University, USA. 2.Damaged Daughters and Paternal Purgatories in Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Hellraiser: Deader: Paula Ashe Independent Scholar, USA. 3.Feminine Hauntological and Purgatorial Spaces in Silent Hill (1999) and Silent Hill 2 (2001): Rebecca Booth Independent Scholar, UK. 4.Between Hell and Hel: Gender, History and Nature in Subterranean Spaces: Elana Gomel Visiting Fellow, Venice International University, Italy. 5.Betwixt and Between: Navigating the Liminal Spaces of Memory, Female Identity, and Trauma: Deborah G. Christie Lecturer, Colorado Technical University, USA. Part II: Daughters, Mothers, Trauma 6.Welcome to Hell: Liminal Spaces of Home and Hotel in American Horror Story: G zde Erdogan Lecturer, Hacettepe University, Turkey. 7. Mother is God in the Eyes of a Child : Doppelg ngers, Punishment and the Transgressive Mother in Silent Hill and Triangle: Catherine Pugh Independent Scholar, UK. 8.Representing Mental Health in the Silent Hill Franchise: Dawn Stobbart Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK. 9.Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Purgatorial Worlds of Pan s Labyrinth (del Toro: 2006) and Coraline (Selick: 2009): Jaime Segura San Miguel Lecturer, Complutense University, Spain. Part III: Female Development in Purgatorial Spaces 10. Eden wasn t a prison : The Female-Centered Purgatorial Space of Dollhouse: Erin Giannini Independent Scholar , USA. 11.Constructing (monstrous) female identities in liminal spaces in David Mitchell s Slade House: Taryn Tavener-Smith Lecturer, Buckinghamshire New University, UK. 12.The Trauma We Inherit: Sister Night, Black Female Identity and the Parallel Racial Purgatory of Watchmen: Kevin Wetmore Professor, Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University, USA. 13. Into the Further We Go : Exploring Gender, World-building, and the Return of the Fantastic in the Insidious Franchise: Mark Adams Lecturer, Swindon College, UK. Part IV: Spaces of Female Resistance 14.Pray and Obey: The Horror (and Purgatory) of Religious Fundamentalism: Nicola Tyrell Independent Scholar, UK. 15. This Time I ll Get It Right : Purgatorial Time Loops as Contemporary Bildungsroman in Transmedia Fiction: Shawn Edrei Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 16.Purgatorial Worlds : Coded Outcry -Margaret Atwood s The Handmaid s Tale ( 1985), and The Testaments (2019): Gina Wisker Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, Brighton University, UK. 17.Tethered to Oppression: Race, Gender, and Underground Identity in Jordan Peele s Us: Natalie Wilson Professor of Women s Studies, California State University, USA.

ISBN:

9781350227064

OCLC:

1382694149

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