03947oam 2200649I 450 991015498620332120240505162023.01-351-91609-21-138-26054-11-315-24845-X10.4324/9781315248455 (CKB)3710000000965730(MiAaPQ)EBC4758458(OCoLC)973026412(BIP)63369628(BIP)30233482(EXLCZ)99371000000096573020180706e20162011 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMyth and violence in the contemporary female text new Cassandras /edited by Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan1st ed.London :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (229 pages) illustrationsFirst published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4094-0001-8 1-351-91610-6 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.pt. I. Myth, violence, border-crossing : global expressions of self and society -- pt. II. Of archetypes, creativity, and ethics : inscribing the feminine in mythistory -- pt. III. Instead of an afterword.How various mythologies challenge, enable, and inspire women artists and activists across the globe to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this collection. Beginning with the observation that twentieth- and twenty-first century female writers and artists often use myth to represent their social and artistic struggles, the distinguished international scholars and writers consider mythic fabulations as spaces for contested meanings and resistant readings. The identified resistance of the mythic material to repression-working, as it were, in opposition to another celebrated drive/role of myth, that of containment-makes the use of myth particularly stimulating for twentieth-century and contemporary female artists; and it is an interest in the aesthetic and political consequences of such resistances that animates this book. Exemplifying the diverse types of engagement with myth and femininity, literary criticism, discussions of film and art, artwork, as well as original creative writing, could all be found within the boundaries of this innovative volume. Femininity, myth, and violence are here explored in contexts such as female mythopoiesis in the early twentieth century; the politics of representation in contemporary writing; revision of old myths; and creation of new myths in multicultural female experiences. Keeping the focus on the actual works of art, the editors and contributors offer scholars and teachers an inclusive way to approach literature and the arts that avoids the limits imposed by genre or national and regional boundaries.LiteratureWomen authorsHistory and criticismWomen and literatureHistory20th centuryWomen authors20th centuryPolitical and social viewsMyth in literatureViolence in literatureMyth in motion picturesViolence in motion picturesLiteratureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistoryWomen authorsPolitical and social views.Myth in literature.Violence in literature.Myth in motion pictures.Violence in motion pictures.809.915082Bahun Sanja849173Rajan V. G. Julie868376MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154986203321Myth and violence in the contemporary female text2287451UNINA