Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras

ISBN-13: 9781138260542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str.

V. G. Julie Rajan; Sanja Bahun-Radunovic

Opis

How women artists and activists across the globe employ myth to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this innovative collection. Rather than compartmentalizing women's artistic production within generic or geographical boundaries, the volume encompasses literary criticism, discussion of film and art, artwork, autobiographical accounts and pieces of original creative writing, thereby promulgating an inclusive way to approach literature and the arts.

Recenzje

'Bringing together scholarly essays and creative work that focus on a variety of contemporary texts in literature, cinema and theater, and artistic production, this collection contextualizes the means by which women writers and artists manipulate mythic material to aesthetically evaluate the cultural values and social relations between women and men that have served to normalize women's oppression.' Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, Hamline University, USA 'Consistently interesting and inventive, each of the essays of the volume brings a considerably different view to the overall subject at hand. The diversity, particularly globally, of both the materials examined/presented and the contributors make this text a unique and valuable contribution to the study of the ways in which women draw from mythology. The decision to include creative materials as well as scholarly materials was an inspired choice and one hopes that other texts will adopt this interdisciplinary approach in the future.' Journal of Folklore Research

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Cassandra's gift, Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan; 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 remnants: 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 Love: Sarah 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 Sybil and Phaedra, Olga Peters 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 Aleksic; 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; Index.

O autorze

Sanja Bahun-Radunovic is Assistant Professor in Literature and Film, University of Essex, U.K. She has edited numerous anthologies and authored a monograph entitled Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning. V.G. Julie Rajan is Visiting Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, U.S.A. She has edited several anthologies and written a monograph entitled Female Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence.