Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction:Postfeminist Gothic....Pages 1-15
Dark Departures: Contemporary Women’s Writing after the Gothic....Pages 16-29
Neo-Splatter: Bride of Chucky and the Horror of Heteronormativity....Pages 30-42
Bite-Size Pieces: Disassembling the Gothic Villain in Witchblade....Pages 43-55
The Spectral Phallus: Re-Membering the Postfeminist Man....Pages 56-67
(Re)Making the Body Beautiful: Postfeminist Cinderellas and Gothic Tales of Transformation....Pages 68-84
The Stepford Wives: What’s a Living Doll to Do in a Postfeminist World?....Pages 85-98
The Postfeminist Filmic Female Gothic Detective: Reading the Bodily Text in Candyman....Pages 99-113
Moving beyond Waste to Celebration: The Postcolonial/ Postfeminist Gothic of Nalo Hopkinson’s “A Habit of Waste”....Pages 114-125
George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility....Pages 126-139
Sensibility Gone Mad: Or, Drusilla, Buffy and the (D)evolution of the Heroine of Sensibility....Pages 140-153
She: Gothic Reverberations in Star Trek: First Contact....Pages 154-169
Flight of the Heroine....Pages 170-185
Back Matter....Pages 186-189