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MYTH AND VIOLENCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY FEMALE TEXT

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras.
1. Literature and myth. 2. Myth in literature. 3. Violence in literature.
4. Women and literature. 5. Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
6. Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.
I. Bahun-Radunovi, Sanja. II. Rajan, V G. Julie.
809.9150904-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / [edited by] Sanja
Bahun-Radunovi and V.G. Julie Rajan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0001-1 (hardback) 1. Literature--Women authors--History and criticism. 2. Women and literatureHistory--20th century. 3. Women authors--20th century--Political and social views. 4. Myth in literature. 5. Violence in literature. 6. Myth in motion pictures. 7. Violence in motion pictures. I. Bahun-Radunovi, Sanja. II. Rajan, V G. Julie.
PN471.M97 2011
809.915082--dc22

2010052538

ISBN 9781409400011 (hbk)

Contents

Sanja Bahun-Radunovi and V.G. Julie Rajan

Sara Warner, Cornell University

Belinda Kong, Bowdoin College

Sanja Bahun-Radunovi, University of Essex

Shreerekha Subramanian, University of Houston Clear Lake

Anja Mller-Wood, University of Mainz

Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University

Elodie Rousselot, University of Portsmouth

Tatjana Aleksi, University of Michigan

Sue Clayton, University of London Royal Hollow ay

Kiki Smith

Marina Warner, University of Essex

Marina Warner, University of Essex

1. Point of No Return, publicity still from The Disappearance of Finbar (UK/Ireland/Sweden 1997), dir. Sue Clayton. Photograph Sue Clayton
2. The Circle of Karma, Ynchiling Monastery, Central Bhutan. Photograph Sue Clayton 2004. Photography courtesy of Sue Clayton
3. Lots Wife, Kiki Smith 1996, silicon bronze with steel stand 81 X 27 26 (205.7 X 68.6 X 66 cm); edition of 3 + 1 AP. Photography by Ellen Page Wilson, courtesy Pace Wildenstein, New York, Kiki Smith, courtesy Pace Wildenstein, New York

Tatjana Aleksi is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA. Her major research interests include postmodern fiction; history, memory, and myth; Balkan studies; and nationalism. Her publications include the edited volume, Mythistory and Narrative ofthe Nation in the Balkans (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), and numerous articles such as National Definition through Postmoden Fragmentation (Slavic and East European Journal, 2009); Extricating the Self from History: David Albaharis Bait (MMLA Journal, 2006); and Benevolent Racism: Can the Other Represent Itself (Facta Universitatis, 2002).

Sue Clayton is a U.K. film director, writer, and composer, and the Director of the University of London-Royal Holloways MA Program in Screenwriting for TV and Film. She scripted and directed the widely-acclaimed feature film The Disappearance of Finbar (1997); the medium-length film The Last Crop (1990); the short film Heart Songs (1993), which won several festival prizes; and a number of innovative documentaries. Her other recent screenplays include: The Memories (co-written, 2003), Greedy Mouth (co-written, 2004), Jumolhari (co-written, 2008) and The Lost Girl (2009). Claytons most recent academic publications include: Visual and Performative Elements in Screen Adaptation: A Filmmakers Perspective (Journal of Media Practice, 2007); and Mythic Structure in Screenwriting (New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 2007).

Olga Peters Hasty is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University, U.S.A. Her research interests entail the poets of the nineteenth century and the modernist period, gender, temporality, and translatability. Her publications include America through Russian Eyes (Yale UP, 1988), with Susanne Fusso; Tsvetaeva s Orphic Journeys in the Worlds of the Word (Northwestern UP, 1996); and Pushkins Tatiana (Wisconsin UP, 1999). Hastys most recent publications include: The Pushkin of Opportunity in the Harlem Renaissance (Pushkin and Blackness, 2006); and Representing Ephemerality: Pasternaks Tpo3a, MOMeHTajibHaa HaBek (Stanford Slavic Studies, 2006). She is currently working on the manuscript How Women Must Write: Devising a Poetic Self, a book examining strategies of poetic self-presentation developed by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian women poets.

Belinda Kong is Assistant Professor of English and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College, U.S.A. Her teaching and research focus on Asian-American and Asian diaspora literature, with particular emphasis on the Chinese literary diaspora. Kongs recent publications include When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Changs Hunger (Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead, Ashgate, 2010); The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic: Ghosts and Doubles in Maxine Hong Kingston and l thi diem thy (Asian Gothic: A Critical Reader, McFarland, 2008); and Traveling Man, Traveling Culture: Death of a Salesman & Post-Mao Chinese Theater (Arthur Millers Global Theater: How an American Playwrights Work Is Staged Around the World, U of Michigan P, 2007). Kong is currently completing her book manuscript entitled Writing Chineseness in the Age of Diaspora.

Anja Mller-Wood is Professor of English Literature and Anglophone Cultures at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany. Her fields of research are in early modern English, and in twentieth-century and contemporary Anglophone cultures and literatures. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Mller-Wood has published two books: Angela Carter: Identity Constructed/ Deconstructed

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