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 The Handmaids Tale, Us,
Watchmen, and Margaret Atwood's The Testaments among many others.
These texts depict alternate worlds that express the darkness and
violence of our own, arguably none more so than for women.
Featuring essays from a broad range of international contributors
on topics as wide-ranging as mental health in the Silent Hill
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.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Editors: |
Simon Bacon
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| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-22703-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-350-22703-X |
| Barcode: |
9781350227033 |
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