New Queer Gothic - Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film

Queer theory, queer literary criticism and queer cultural criticism often focus on western, white, cis men. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts that focus on the subjectivity, characterisation and representation of queer girls and women. The New Queer Gothic applies interdisciplinary theory to offer a new mode and method of reading literary and film fiction. From monstrous femininity in tales of girlhood, to paranoid negativity and transformation in young womanhood, through to postcolonial doubles, hybrid assimilation, corporeal possession, and final girls at the end of everything - this book takes as its canon works from the past fifteen years concerning queer and questioning girls and women in Gothic settings and narratives, to elucidate upon questions of queer feminist ethics, biopower and global identity politics.

About the author

Robyn Ollett is a lecturer of English studies at Teesside University and PGR dissertation supervisor for gender studies and media at Stirling University.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Ollett
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2024
• EAN: 9781837721382
• ISBN: 978-1-83772-138-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Gothic Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Film, Women, New, Girls, Queer, Gothic, Contemporary, Fiction, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Romanticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies: women, Robyn, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Ollett