Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors - Paperback

by Melanie Haas (Editor), N. A. Pierce (Editor), Gretchen Busl (Editor)

This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the socio-political discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.

Author Biography

Melanie Haas is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Arkansas College and is completing her PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman's University. N.A. Pierce is completing her PhD in English Literature at Old Dominion University. Gretchen Busl is associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University.