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This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist
utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art,
working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key
works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a
wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The
international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by
Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism,
speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms,
and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives
on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts
rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs
dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this
dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging
writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique
collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist
literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender
studies.
This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist
utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art,
working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key
works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a
wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The
international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by
Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism,
speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms,
and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives
on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts
rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs
dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this
dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging
writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique
collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist
literature, media cultural studies, and women's and gender studies.
Although Gothicism remains a popular subject of scholarly
investigation, little attention has been paid to the figure of the
Gothic female tyrant. This book attempts to prove that despotic
women in Gothic fiction are more than mere female equivalents of
male tyrants or negatives to angelic damsels in distress. Rather,
they are multidimensional characters who are punished for their
independence, power and the free expression of their erotic needs.
The book explains how their portrayal has evolved, embracing a
selection of texts written between 1764 and 2003, as well as a few
cinematic adaptations of the analyzed works. The study views Gothic
anti-heroines in their historical, social, class and cultural
contexts, paying particular attention to the notion of desire and
its fulfillment. The analysis, accompanied by the relevant
theoretical framework, aims to help the eponymous "she-devils"
reclaim their space and voice.
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