Taking the Bite out of the Vagina Dentata: Latin American Women Authors' Fantastic Transformation of the Feline Fatale.
Traditional stories of the feline fatale, or of a woman who fantastically transforms herself into a killer cat, serve to reaffirm man's primal fear of the Other, a fear brought on by physical difference and by potential loss of power, both evoked by the fanged "pussy" or vagina. This study first ana...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 41 - 61 |
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International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
2013
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