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...

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Published in:	Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 41 - 61
Main Author:	Connor, Anne
Format:	Article
Published:	International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 2013
Subjects:	Vagina dentata (Tale) Latin American women authors Metamorphosis in literature Kiss of the Spider Woman (Book : Puig) Valenzuela, Luisa, 1938-
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost