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Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers
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Series: Akashic Noir
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ISBN10: 1636141374
ISBN13: 9781636141374
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: Aug 1 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 4.96 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781636141374
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: Aug 1 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 4.96 Depth: 8.19
Language: English
In this haunting new collection, edited by Oates, 15 women writers explore the manifold horrors of living (and dying) in a patriarchal society . . . this collection may initially appeal to readers eager for tales filled with vampires and werewolves, influences from beyond the grave, and gore, guts, and ooze. They will not be disappointed. However, the stories not only bleed across the categorical boundaries they have been assigned, but also expand the scope of what is terrifying about the body--living or dead, human or nonhuman--in the first place . . . A bold collection of horror stories that flies in the face of both gender and genre conventions. --Kirkus Reviews
While the common belief is 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.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.
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.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.
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