Contemporary rewritings of liminal women : echoes of the past
著者
書誌事項
Contemporary rewritings of liminal women : echoes of the past
（Among the Victorians and modernists）
Routledge, 2020
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全1件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- Introduction: Liminality, Feminocentric Narratives and the Polytemporality of the New Woman
- Female Vampires: On the Threshold of Time, Space and Gender
- Good and Bad, Private and Public: Prostitution as Liminal Identity
- Between Madness and Rebellion: Rewriting the Female Quixote
- To Be and Not to Be: Female Detectives between Old and New Women
- Afterword
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, quixotes, and detectives as examples of new women who inhabit the margins of society and populate its narratives. Therefore, it places together for the first time four important liminal identities, while it explores a relevant corpus that comprises four centuries and several countries. Its diachronic, transnational, and comparative approach emphasizes the representation across time and space of female sexuality, gender violence, and women's rights, also employing a liminal stance in its literary analysis: facing the past in order to understand the present. By underlining the dialogue between past and present this monograph contributes to contemporary debates on the representation of women and the construction of femininity as opposed to hegemonic masculinity, for it exposes the line of thought that has brought us to the present moment, hence, challenging assumed stereotypes and narratives. In addition, by using popular narratives and media, the present work highlights the value of literature, films, or alternative forms of storytelling to understand how women's place in society, their voice, and their presence have been and are still negotiated in spaces of visibility, agency, and power.
目次
1. Introduction: Liminality, Feminocentric Narratives, and the Polytemporality of the New Woman
Liminality and Feminocentric Narratives
Polytemporal (Feminist) History and the Trace
Liminal Women and Popular Narratives
2. Female Vampires: On the Threshold of Time, Space, and Gender
F(r)iends on the Threshold: Let the Right One In
M/Others and Survivors through Time: A Vampire Story and Byzantium
Eternity, Liminal Space, and the Outsider: Only Lovers Left Alive
Empowering Liminal Women: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
3. Good and Bad, Private and Public: Prostitution as Liminal Identity
Between Monsters and Machines: Frankenhooker
The Freedom of the Prostitute or the Silence of the Wife: Dangerous Beauty
Neo-Victorian Rewritings: Class, Gender, and Commodities in Slammerkin
Sex and Power from the Eighteenth Century to Television: Harlots
4. Between Madness and Rebellion: Rewriting the Female Quixote
Coloring Reality with Romance: from Bridget Jones's Diary to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Escaping a Harrowing (Patriarchal) Reality: Pan's Labyrinth and Sucker Punch
Idealistic Individuals in a Fallen World: Amelie and The Bookshop
5. To Be and Not to Be: Female Detectives between Old and New Women
Resurrecting Kate Warne: The Pinkertons and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Sherlock's Sisters at the Turn of the Century: Houdini & Doyle and Phryne Fisher
Invisible Women: Reclaiming the Spy in The Bletchley Circle
Past in the Present, the Gothic in the Noir: Dolores Redondo's Baztan Trilogy
「Nielsen BookData」 より
