Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors

Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
ISBN-10
1793624577
ISBN-13
9781793624574
Category
Social Science
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2020-12-02
Publisher
Lexington Books
Authors
Melanie Haas, N. A. Pierce, Gretchen Busl

Description

This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars of literary, cultural, media, and gender studies address the complications of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts complicated by age, class, race, sexuality, and a spectrum of privilege that reflects the complexities of scripting women on and off screen, within and beyond the page. This collection offers perspectives on the alternate narratives engendered through the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine, while engaging with the discourses of how such narratives are employed both as potentially feminist interventions and critiques of access, hierarchy, and power.

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