From Girl to Goddess The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches English at Mission College and San Jose City College. The author of more than 90 popular culture books and more than 100 stories and essays, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.âan extremely useful primer of women in myths and legends....Frankel has done wonderful work in retrieving and retelling these storiesââ<i>Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction</i>; âFrankelâs book is so enthusiastically written, so thoroughly researched, and so articulately argued...leaves the reader anticipating each exemplary tale, and longing for further discussionââ<i>Mythprint</i>; âI recommend <i>From Girl to Goddess</i> highly. Frankelâs truly global choice of tales and her analysis of them is outstanding. It is a book to turn to for deepening oneâs understanding of myths and stories about women and their underlying structuresââ<i>Mythlore</i>; âexplores the heroineâs journey and how it differs from the heroâs by examining womenâs mythology from all over the worldââ<i>Livejournal.com</i>; âgathers stories from around the world representing the heroineâs journeyââ<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>; âever since...my first novel, I have wanted this bookââ<i>Romance Writers of America</i>; âFrankel draws a connection between the heroines in contemporary fantasy fiction for children and young adults to the heroines from world mythologyââ<i>Childrenâs Literature Association Quarterly</i>.
Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego. This book explores the universal heroine's journey as she quests through world myth. Numerous stories from cultures as varied as Chile and Vietnam reveal heroines who battle for safety and identity, thereby upsetting popular notions of the passive, gentle heroine. Only after she has defeated her dark side and reintegrated can the heroine become the bestower of wisdom, the protecting queen and arch-crone.
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Introduction
Section I: New Rules
Passing the Mako Mori Test: Female Agency in Menâs
Science Fiction and Fantasy Cinema (Tim Posada)
Blockbusters for a New Age: Sisterhood Defeats Angry Young
in Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Last Jedi and Ghostbusters
(Valerie Estelle Frankel)
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies for Identity Politics in Fourth Wave
Feminism (Aamir Aziz and Farwa Javed)
Imperator Furiosa, Fury Broad: Gender in Mad Max: Fury Road
(Martin Ricksand)
Section II: Deconstruction
From Traditional Slasher to Fourth Wave: Fantastical Reconversion in The Final Girls and Happy Death Day (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela AilĂŠn Rodriguez Fontao and Mariana S. ZĂĄrate)
Annihilation, HeLa and the New Weird: Destruction as ÂRe-Creation
(Alexis Brooks de Vita)
âHello, beastyâ: Uncompromising Motherhood in Disneyâs
Maleficent (Melissa Wehler)
Section III: Childrenâs Stories
Katniss, the Naive Virgin: Fourth Wave Heroines Recentering ÂNeoconservative Values (Paula Talero Ălvarez)
Contrivances of Female Empowerment and the Millennial Wave in Disney Movies (Ananya Chatterjee and Nisarga Bhattacharjee)
Making Her Own Destiny: Disneyâs Diverse Females (Lisann Anders)
Jack Frost and the Heroineâs Journey: ÂGender-Bending Back to the Goddess in Rise of the Guardians (Patti McCarthy)
Section IV: Superheroes
Stings Like a Wasp: Janet van Dyne, Hope van Dyne and the Feminist Superheroine in the Ant-Man Films (Don Tresca)
Riding the Waves of Feminism in Wonder Woman: A Shock Heard âRound the World (Carol ÂZitzer-Comfort and JosĂŠ I. RodrĂguez)
Deconstructing the Wonder: Liberal Versus Conservative
Thought in Patty Jenkinsâs Wonder Woman (Christian Jimenez)
Black Panther and Wonder Woman: A Study in Feminist Representation (Shoshana Kessock)
About the Contributors
Index