Myth and violence in the contemporary female text : new Cassandras / Sanja Bahun-Radunović and V.G. Julie Rajan.

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011], ©2011.

xii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: Cassandra's gift -- Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Love : Sarah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood -- Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; Making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; Flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema screenwriting / Sue Clayton -- Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.