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" Contemporary women's Gothic fiction : "
Gina Wisker
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600186
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b429405
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Wisker, Gina,1951-
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Contemporary women's Gothic fiction : : carnival, hauntings and vampire kisses /\ Gina Wisker
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Palgrave gothic
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1 online resource (viii, 269 pages)
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9781137303493
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: 1137303492
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9781137303486
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1137303484
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Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times -- Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic: Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self-Deception -- Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due -- Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants: Letting the 'Right' Ones in -- Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologising, Re-Mythologising and Shape-Shifting -- Vampire Bites -- Vampire Kisses -- Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic -- Opening the Gates to Darkness: Gothic Diversity
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Neighborhood Vampire GothicThe Edges of England: Seaside Towns and Vampire Sisterhood: Moira Buffini's A Vampire Story (2008) and Byzantium (2013); Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2013); Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic; The Woman in Black (1983)-Susan Hill; Post-War Ghosts: Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (2009) and Helen Dunmore, The Greatcoat (2012); The Greatcoat (2012)-Helen Dunmore; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Opening the Gates to Darkness: Gothic Diversity; Everyday Gothic Horror
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Shani Mootoo: Hothouse Flowers and Shapeshifting-Cereus Blooms at Night (1996)Helen Oyeyemi, Mr Fox (2011); Postcolonial Feminism Revisited; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Vampire Bites; History-Vampire Women; Demon Lovers-Romantic Love, Vampires and Escape; Revamping the Vampire; Rock'n' Roll Vampire Transients-Critical Comment; Interviewing Vampires-Anne Rice; Lesbian Gothic and Lesbian Vampires; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Vampire Kisses; Vampire Romance, YA Fiction and Mash-Ups; Twilight for Vampires; Respectability-Tananarive Due's African Vampires
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The Bloody Chamber (1979)Nights at the Circus (1987); Conclusions: Angela Carter and the Literary Gothic; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic-Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self-Deception; Canadian Gothic and Alice Munro; Margaret Atwood; Romantic Gothic Uncloaked: Lady Oracle (1976), Alias Grace (1996), Cat's Eye (1988), The Robber Bride (1993); Lady Oracle (1976); The Robber Bride (1993): Ghost Tale-Return from the Dead; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due; Haunted and Haunting; Home (2012)
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Tananarive Due, Joplin's Ghost (2006) Conclusions; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants-Letting the 'Right' Ones in; Mad Women: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966); Crocodiles and Shape-Shifters: Beth Yahp, The Crocodile Fury (1992); Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologising, Re-Mythologising and Shape-Shifting; Bluebeard and His House Reshaped; Zombies and Myal, Erna Brodber (1988); Nalo Hopkinson: Dismantling 'Massa's House'
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Ubiquitous Contemporary Gothic; Contemporary Women's Gothic: Convention and Haunting; Pivotal Moments in Criticism; Pivotal Moments: Fictional Texts: Rebecca (1938), Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and The Magic Toyshop (1967); Gothic Horror; History Revisited; Shape of the Book; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times; 'The Lady of the House of Love' (1979) and 'The Loves of Lady Purple' (1974): Turning the Tables on Women of the Gothic; The Magic Toyshop (1967); De Sade and 'The Bloody Chamber' (1979)
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"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."--Provided by publisher
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'At last we have a definitive guide to the marriage between contemporary women's fiction and the Gothic, which gleefully plunges the romance plot into darkness and prises heroines away from constraining narratives in an endless series of reinventions from the Cartesque through to the post-colonial.' - Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England, UK 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
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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809.38729
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PN3435
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Ohio Library and Information Network
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