Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent
Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions
Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent
Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions
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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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Table of Contents
Ruth Barratt-Peacock (Independent Scholar, UK)
Part I: Witches
1. WandaVision: When Horror (Re)frames Magical Motherhood
Ruth Barratt-Peacock (Independent Scholar, UK)
2. The Witch as Anti-Mother in Eggers's The Witch
Mark Henderson (Tuskegee University, USA)
3. Irish Witches, Familiars, and Mother Earth: Exploitation of Women, Animals, and the Environment in Irish History and Modern Media
Evelyn Suttle (Advocate, Ireland)
Part II: M/Others
4. M/othering and the Abject in Molly Cochran's The Third Magic
Radhia Flah Gaich (University of Sousse, Tunisia)
5. Magical Vulnerability and Vulnerable Magic: The Witch (M)Other in Salman Rushdie's Victory City
Sreelakshmy M (National Institute of Technology, India)
6. Fangs and Phalluses: The Barren, Pregnant Vampire
Evie Kendal (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Part III: Wombs and Their Progeny
7. Wombs of Discontent: Unveiling Gender Abjection through Dolls in Lucky McKee's May
Amylou Ahava (Independent Scholar, USA)
8. Chapter 8: Gynae Horror in Select Hindi Cinema: The Womb as The Element of Horror
Shrenya Soni (Independent Scholar, India)
9. A Haunting Healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved
Jeff Ambrose (Delaware County Community College, USA)
10. Chapter 10: Miscarriage in Contemporary Film: Visualizing the Unseen Through the Horror Scene
Katherine Cottle (Goucher College, USA)
About the Contributors
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Product details
| Published | 03 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 9798216365730 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 bw illus |
| Series | Research in Horror Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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