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Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text - New Cassandras (Paperback)
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Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text - New Cassandras (Paperback)
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How various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women
artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and
historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this
collection. Beginning with the observation that twentieth- and
twenty-first century female writers and artists often use myth to
represent their social and artistic struggles, the distinguished
international scholars and writers consider mythic fabulations as
spaces for contested meanings and resistant readings. The
identified resistance of the mythic material to repression-working,
as it were, in opposition to another celebrated drive/role of myth,
that of containment-makes the use of myth particularly stimulating
for twentieth-century and contemporary female artists; and it is an
interest in the aesthetic and political consequences of such
resistances that animates this book. Exemplifying the diverse types
of engagement with myth and femininity, literary criticism,
discussions of film and art, artwork, as well as original creative
writing, could all be found within the boundaries of this
innovative volume. Femininity, myth, and violence are here explored
in contexts such as female mythopoiesis in the early twentieth
century; the politics of representation in contemporary writing;
revision of old myths; and creation of new myths in multicultural
female experiences. Keeping the focus on the actual works of art,
the editors and contributors offer scholars and teachers an
inclusive way to approach literature and the arts that avoids the
limits imposed by genre or national and regional boundaries.
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