Name: A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (in English)
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9781636141343

portada A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

Akashic Books

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781636141343

Synopsis "A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (in English)"

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors--including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott--to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.WHILE THE COMMON BELIEF is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways."Should we know nothing of the female monsters of antiquity," Oates writes in her introduction to the volume, "still we would know that body horror in its myriad manifestations speaks most powerfully to women and girls. To be female is to inhabit a body that is by nature vulnerable to forcible invasion, susceptible to impregnation and repeated pregnancies, condemned to suffer childbirth, often in the past early deaths in childbirth and in the aftermath of childbirth."

Joyce Carol Oates

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(Lockport, Nueva York, 1938) Es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura contemporánea estadounidense. Autora de más de medio centenar de novelas, más de cuatrocientos relatos breves, más de una docena de libros de no ficción, once libros de poesía y nueve obras de teatro en sus más de cinco décadas de trabajo. Ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, como el National Book Award, el PEN/Malamud Award, el Prix Fémina Étranger y, en España, con el Premio BBK Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro de su obra» y el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2021. En 2010 recibió la National Humanities Medal, el más alto galardón civil del gobierno estadounidense en el campo de las humanidades y, en 2012, el Premio Stone de la Oregon State University por su carrera literaria.

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