ISBN:
9781666907414
,
1666907413
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 200 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Global perspectives on the liminality of the supernatural
Keywords:
Popkultur
;
Liminalität
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Das Übernatürliche
;
Tod
;
Supernatural / Folklore
;
Supernatural in literature
;
Supernatural in motion pictures
;
Folklore in literature
;
Folklore in motion pictures
;
Folklore in literature
;
Folklore in motion pictures
;
Supernatural in literature
;
Supernatural in motion pictures
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Tod
;
Das Übernatürliche
;
Liminalität
;
Popkultur
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
"Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural investigates fundamental anthropological questions about humanity, the concept of 'dead,' and how we relate to our own genders when using the supernatural to understand them"--
Description / Table of Contents:
A (wo)man's touch : doomsday book as critique of metropolis / Liz W. Faber -- Gender, death, and the supernatural in the untamed (Chen Qing Ling) : a danmei genre pop cultural phenomenon / Lucy Yuan Qin and Kong F. Cheong -- A real woman is an iceberg, and a real man is made : gender, failure, and death in post-Soviet cinematic space / Lev Nikulin -- The yara-ma-yha-who, "real" vampires, and aboriginal erasure : the retold vampires of Australian horror fiction / McKenzie Lynn Tozan -- When opposites impact : the remarkable duality present in the taíno belief system / James M. VanderVeen -- Dying to live in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Breonna Taylor's America : discourses of policing, misogynoir, "runaways," and zombies / Jamie A. Thomas -- Death and disability in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Parable of the sower / Kathryn E. Heffner -- Bodies in pods : masculine domination, sexuality, and love in the Matrix franchise / Brian Brutlag -- Half man, half machine : transhumanism and the cyborg through a fictional lens / Freya Fenton -- "Blood stays inside your arteries, dlique" : aliens, cyborgs, death, and tea ceremonies in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy / Rebecca Gibson
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