Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors

This volume of essays explores the methods used to construct narratives that foreground antiheroines, challenging traditional gender, sex, and sexuality boundaries. It examines the complications of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts and offers perspectives on the alternate narratives engendered through the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

This volume of essays delves into the methods employed to create narratives that prominently feature antiheroines, a trope that has gained significant popularity in literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters explore the complexities of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as shaped by the societal structures that impose boundaries on gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars from literary, cultural, media, and gender studies examine the challenges of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts, taking into account factors such as age, class, race, sexuality, and the spectrum of privilege that reflects the intricacies of scripting women on and off screen, within and beyond the page. This collection presents diverse perspectives on the alternate narratives generated by the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine, while engaging with the discourses surrounding how such narratives can be employed as feminist interventions and critiques of access, hierarchy, and power.

Weight: 349g
Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781793624581