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Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / [edited by] Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan.

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Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / [edited by] Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan.
Publication
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

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  • Bahun, Sanja
  • Rajan, V. G. Julie.
  • Bahun, Sanja.
Description
214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Literature > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > History > 20th century
  • Women authors > 20th century > Political and social views
  • Myth in literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Myth in motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: Cassandra's gift -- Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Loveah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood -- Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing / Sue Clayton -- Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.
ISBN
9781409400011 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010052538
OCLC
  • 694509759
  • SCSB-12084220
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library