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Antiheroines of Contemporary Media

Antiheroines of Contemporary Media Saints, Sinners, and Survivors

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781793624581
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.93522
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 232
Weight: 368g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 17mm