An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors discuss the womb and the mother as separate sources of supernatural reproduction in horror media, arguing that the alchemy of pregnancy and birth warrants a sustained examination of supernatural motherhood in diverse contexts.
From television shows like WandaVision and films like The Witch (2015) to novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Salman Rushdie's Victory City, contributors analyze a variety of horror media texts, identifying and unpacking key themes including the monstrous feminine, gynae horror, and magical motherhood.
As narratives foregrounding the Othering of the mother figure emerge from these texts on a broader scale, the volume ultimately brings these wide-ranging explorations together to interrogate motherhood as an expression of systemic power relations, positing that the supernatural functions as a foil against which the social constructions of birth, birthing, and motherhood may be reconsidered and perhaps even redefined.
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Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent
Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions
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Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent
Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Th e Magic in the Horror: Spelling a Diff erent Perspective on Reproduction in Horror
- PART I Witches
- 1 WandaVision: W hen Horror (Re)frames Magical Motherhood
- 2 The Witch as Anti-Mother in Robert Eggers’s The Witch
- 3 From Animal Enchantress to Wicked Witch: Shape-Shifting Perspectives of Interspecies Relationships in Ireland
- PART II M/Others
- 4 M/Othering and the Abject in Molly Cochran’s The Third Magic
- 5 Magical Vulnerability and Vulnerable Magic: The Witch M/Other in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
- 6 Fangs and Phalluses: The Barren, Pregnant Vampire
- PART III Wombs and Their Progeny
- 7 Wombs of Discontent: Unveiling Gender Abjection Through Dolls in Lucky McKee’s May
- 8 Taxonomy of the Monstrous Womb in Hindi Cinema: Horror, Religion, and Magic in Pari, Chhorii, and Tumbbad
- 9 A Haunting Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- 10 Miscarriage in Contemporary Film: Visualizing the Unseen Through the Horror Scene
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Copyright
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