Darker Shade of Noir e-bog
150,55 DKK
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Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authorsincluding Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbottto explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.Featuring brand-new stories by:Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott,Raven Leilani,Aimee Bender, Lisa Lim,Cassandra Khaw,Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Ma...
E-bog
150,55 DKK
Forlag
Akashic Books
Udgivet
5 september 2023
Længde
272 sider
Genrer
Horror and supernatural fiction
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781636141381
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authorsincluding Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbottto explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.Featuring brand-new stories by:Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott,Raven Leilani,Aimee Bender, Lisa Lim,Cassandra Khaw,Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.WHILE THE COMMON BELIEFis that body horror as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the quintessential emblem of female body horror. In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways.Should we know nothing of the female monsters of antiquity, Oates writes in her introduction to the volume, still we would know that body horror in its myriad manifestations speaks most powerfully to women and girls. To be female is to inhabit a body that is by nature vulnerable to forcible invasion, susceptible to impregnation and repeated pregnancies, condemned to suffer childbirth, often in the past early deaths in childbirth and in the aftermath of childbirth.