Postfeminist gothic
Subtitle: critical interventions in contemporary culture
By: edited by Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz
Contributors: Brabon, Benjamin A., 1977-; Genz, Stéphanie, 1976-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780230005426
Subjects: Gothic literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Feminism in literature; Horror films -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: postfeminist gothic / Benjamin A. Brabon and Stéphanie Genz; title: Dark departures: contemporary women's writing after the gothic / Lucie Armitt; title: Neo-splatter: Bride of Chucky and the horror of heteronormativity / Judith Halberstam; title: Bite-size pieces: disassembling the gothic villain in Witchblade / Rhonda V. Wilcox; title: The spectral phallus: re-membering the postfeminist man / Benjamin A. Brabon; title: (Re)making the body beautiful: postfeminist cinderellas and gothic tales of transformation / Stéphanie Genz; title: The Stepford wives: what's a living doll to do in a postfeminist world? / Anne Williams; title: The postfeminist filmic female gothic detective: reading the bodily text in Candyman / Diane Long Hoeveler; title: Moving beyond waste to celebration: the postcolonial/postfeminist gothic of Nalo Hopkinson's "A habit of waste" / Gina Wisker; title: George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy: sublimity, pain, possibility / Donna Heiland; title: Sensibility gone mad: or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the heroine of sensibility / Claire Knowles; title: She: gothic reverberations in Star Trek: first contact / Linda Dryden; title: Flight of the heroine / Fred Botting