书目名称 | Feminist Afterlives of the Witch | 副标题 | Popular Culture, Mem | 编辑 | Brydie Kosmina | 视频video | | 概述 | Analyses feminist rhetoric alongside popular culture texts to consider cultural meanings of the witch as mnemonic symbol.Draws on memory studies frameworks to analyse cultural symbols and historical n | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture. The witch demonstrates the inheritance of paradoxical pasts, traversing numerous ideological memoryscapes. This book is an examination of the ways that the witch has been deployed by feminist activists and writers in their political efforts in the twentieth century, and how this has indelibly affected cultural memories of the witch and the witch trials, and how this plays out in popular culture representations of the symbol through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, this book considers the relationship between popular culture and media, activist politics, and cultural memory. Using hauntological theories of memory and temporality, and literary, screen, and cultural studies methodologies, this book considers how popular culture remembers, misremembers, and forgets usable pasts, and the uses (and misuses) of thesememories for feminist politics. Given the ubiquity of the witch in popular culture, politics and activism since 2016, this book is a timely examination of the range of meanings inherent to the figure, | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | 关键词 | Witches in popular culture; Feminism and the witch; Feminist activism; Memory studies; Feminist politics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25292-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-25294-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-25292-1Series ISSN 2662-9364 Series E-ISSN 2662-9372 | issn_series | 2662-9364 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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