The New Queer Gothic
Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film
9781837721382
Distributed for University of Wales Press
The New Queer Gothic
Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film
Uses examples from film and literature to define a new genre of Queer Gothic literature and demonstrate how it was shaped by women writers.
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film comprises literary, cultural, and film analysis to situate and define the New Queer Gothic as a product of woman-authored twentieth and twenty-first-century novels. The first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts to focus on the subjectivity, characterization, and representation of queer girls and women, it investigates and celebrates the relationship between queer feminine identity and the Gothic, beyond purely paranoid readings. Using contemporary texts and theory, it focuses on the representation of queer girls and women in contemporary queer and Gothic texts. It includes original analyses of a selection of global film and fiction texts released in the past fifteen years.
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film comprises literary, cultural, and film analysis to situate and define the New Queer Gothic as a product of woman-authored twentieth and twenty-first-century novels. The first in-depth analysis of contemporary queer and Gothic texts to focus on the subjectivity, characterization, and representation of queer girls and women, it investigates and celebrates the relationship between queer feminine identity and the Gothic, beyond purely paranoid readings. Using contemporary texts and theory, it focuses on the representation of queer girls and women in contemporary queer and Gothic texts. It includes original analyses of a selection of global film and fiction texts released in the past fifteen years.
256 pages | 5.43 x 8.5 | © 2024
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One
Chapter One: “She herself is a haunted house”: The Origins of The New Queer Gothic in work of Twentieth Century Women Writers: Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Maryse Condé, Anne Rice, Jewel Gomez, and Sarah Waters
Chapter Two: Miles away from Screwing? The Queer Gothic Child in John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010)
Part Two
Chapter Three: “What happened to my sweet girl?”: Conventions of The New Queer Gothic and Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012)
Chapter Four: “The Saviour who came to tear my life apart”: The Queer Postcolonial Gothic of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016)
Part Three
Chapter Five: Queering the Cannibal in Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016)
Chapter Six: “She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her”: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts (2014)
Conclusion: Queering Gender and Queers of Colour in The New Queer Gothic
Part One
Chapter One: “She herself is a haunted house”: The Origins of The New Queer Gothic in work of Twentieth Century Women Writers: Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Maryse Condé, Anne Rice, Jewel Gomez, and Sarah Waters
Chapter Two: Miles away from Screwing? The Queer Gothic Child in John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010)
Part Two
Chapter Three: “What happened to my sweet girl?”: Conventions of The New Queer Gothic and Queer Subjectivity in Black Swan (2010) and Jack and Diane (2012)
Chapter Four: “The Saviour who came to tear my life apart”: The Queer Postcolonial Gothic of Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (2016)
Part Three
Chapter Five: Queering the Cannibal in Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016)
Chapter Six: “She would never fall, because her friend was flying with her”: Gothic Hybridity, Queer Girls and Exceptional States in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl (2005) and M. R. Carey’s The Girl with all the Gifts (2014)
Conclusion: Queering Gender and Queers of Colour in The New Queer Gothic