Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

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Beschreibung

This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women¿s Gothic fictions in and against traditional Gothic. The book provides new, engaging perspectives on established contemporary women Gothic writers, with a particular focus on Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison. It explores how the Gothic is malleable in their hands and is used to demythologise oppressions based on difference in gender and ethnicity. The study presents new Gothic work and new nuances, critiques of dangerous complacency and radical questionings of what is safe and conformist in works as diverse as Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) and A Girl Walks Home Alone (Ana Lily Amirpur), as well as by Anne Rice and Poppy Brite. It also introduces and critically explores postcolonial, vampire and neohistorical Gothic and women¿s ghost stories.

Über den Autor

Gina Wisker is Head of Learning and Teaching and Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, University of Brighton, UK. She teaches MA and BA in literature and supervises postgraduate students. Gina is an Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning development consultant. She has lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Malta and now runs workshops worldwide - in the Far East, Australasia, the USA, Sweden and South Africa - particularly on supervising postgraduates and writing for academic publication. She is the author of a number of books, chapters and articles including Getting Published, The Good Supervisor, Postgraduate Research Handbook and Horror Fiction. She also writes and publishes poetry and short stories, and is co-editor of SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International, online horror journal Dissectionsand poetry e-zine Spokes. Gina peer reviews for several literature and higher education journals andis on the advisory board for FEMSPECand the Atlantic Literary Review. She lives in Cambridge with her two sons and small dog.

Zusammenfassung

Establishes a canon for contemporary women's writing in the area of the Gothic by showing how it forms part of a much longer tradition of women's writing

Fills a gap in the market and promises to stand out as a definitive work

Accessible writing style and knowledge of the field will have a wide appeal for students, general readers and academics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction.- 2.Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times.- 3.Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic: Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self Deception.- 4.Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due.- 5.Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants: Letting the 'Right' Ones In.- 6.Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologizing, Re-Mythologizing and Shape-shifting.- 7.Vampire Bites.- 8.Vampire Kisses.- 9.Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic with Horror Houses, Stately Homes, Ghosts Behind Walls, Playroom Deaths, Women in Black, Little Strangers.- 10.Reviving, Revisiting and Mainstreaming Gothic

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Fotografie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	viii 269 S.
ISBN-13:	9781349671687
ISBN-10:	1349671681
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-1-349-67168-7
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wisker, Gina
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Gina Wisker
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.11.2018
Gewicht:	0,366 kg

Artikel-ID: 114954715