Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death (eBook, ePUB)

Monstrous Males/Fatal Females
Redaktion: Gibson, Rebecca; Vanderveen, James M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines representations of the supernatural dead to demonstrate shifts in the manifestation of gender. Including readings of East Asian detectives/cyborgs, Iranian vampires, and African zombies, among others, This collection offers a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture representations of the gendered supernatural from a broad range of international contexts. The contributors show that, as creatures pass through the liminal space of death, their new supernatural forms challenge cultural conceptions of gender, masculinity, and femininity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793641366
• Artikelnr.: 61248648

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Gibson is adjunct professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Indiana University South Bend and the department of anthropology at American University. James M. VanderVeen is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Rebecca Gibson
Section One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Transformation and Liminal Space within Fiction and Folklore
Freya Fenton
Section Two: Social Death/Cyborg Transformation
Chapter 2: Vengeful Monsters, Shapeshifting Cyborgs, and Alien Spider
Queens: The Monstrous-Feminine in Netflix's Love, Death & Robots
Sarah Stang
Chapter 3: "We're All, In the End, Part of the Same Great Thing": Gender,
Death, and Memory in Aliette de Bodard's The Tea Master and the Detective
Alex Claman
Chapter 4: "The House Wants Me to Stay": Mothers, Wives and Sex Objects in
the Haunted House Subgenre
Victor Hernández-Santaolalla
Section Three: Between Life and Death
Chapter 5: To Slay or Not to Slay: Gender, Liminality, and Choice in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
Chelsi Slotten
Chapter 6: Fear Itself: The Vampire as Moral Panic
Holly Walters
Chapter 7: Gay Bloodsucker or Post-Soviet Buzzkill? Vampiric Possibilities
in Sektor Gaza
Lev Nikulin
Chapter 8: From Femme Fatale to Fatal Female: Vampiric Power as Coded
Female in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Only Lovers Left Alive
Rebecca Gibson
Section Four: Reanimation with Sentience
Chapter 9: Masculinity, and Not Femininity, As Gendered "Nature" in
Cinematic Adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Devi Snively and Agustín Fuentes
Chapter 10: The Animated Dead: Reimagining the Beautiful Corpse in Tim
Burton's Corpse Bride
Gillian Wittstock
Chapter 11: Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un)dead in
Popular Culture
Matt Coward-Gibbs and Bethan Michael-Fox
Section Five: Reanimation without Sentience
Chapter 12: Behind the Door: Sukuma Mitunga (Zombie) Narratives as Social
Critique in Northwestern Tanzania
Amy Nichols-Belo
Chapter 13: Does Death Destroy the Binary? A Look at Gender Roles During
Human/Zombie Interaction in the World War Z Universe
Rebecca Gibson and James M. VanderVeen
Afterlife and Afterword
James M. VanderVeen