Myth and violence in the contemporary female text
Subtitle: new Cassandras
By: [edited by] Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781409400011
Subjects: Literature; Myth in literature; Violence in literature; History and criticism; Political and social views; Women authors; Women and literature; Myth in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Cassandra's gift; title: 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 fragments: 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 Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood; title: Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga 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 Aleksi; flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton; title: Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.