Cultural Representations of the Second Wife

Literature, Stage, and Screen
Herausgeber: Parnell, Jo

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Produktbeschreibung

The chapters in this collection reveal the depths and nuances in the cultural attitudes toward and popular views of the second wife, from ancient times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of second wifehood in a way that offers insights into the second wife experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781666932843
• ISBN-10: 1666932841
• Artikelnr.: 69081604

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jo Parnell - Foreword by Mark Hoffman - Contributions by Jane Bellemore; Azza Harras; Andrew Howes; Christa Catherine Jones; Kathryn Keeble; Shalini Nadaswaran; Harry Olufunwa and Jo Parnell

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Mark Hoffman
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jo Parnell
Chapter 1. Toxic Patriarchy: Raise the Red Lantern and Chinese Concubinage
Andrew Howe
Chapter 2. The Second Wife According to Assia Djebar, Fawzia Zouari and
Their Novels A Sister to Scheherazade, and The Second Wife
Christa Jones
Chapter 3. Polygamy and Socio-political Configurations in the Egyptian
Cultural Imaginations
Azza Harras
Chapter 4 Secondary Spouse: Ekwefi as Second Wife in Chinua Achebe's Things
Fall Apart
Harry Olufunwa
Chapter 5. Unmasking the Realities of Polygamy: the Figure of the Second
Wife in Changes: A Love Story (1993), Ada: A Victim of Fate and Cultural
Circumstances (2014), and Mariah (2002).
Shalini Nadaswaran
Chapter 6. Poppaea Sabina, second wife to the Roman Emperor Nero
Jane Bellemore
Chapter 7. "I am Mrs de Winter now": Gaslighting, a deadly paradox, and
Hitchcock's second wife.
Kathryn Keeble
About the Contributors