Myth and violence in the contemporary female text: new Cassandras

Introduction: Cassandra's gift

Part I. Myth, violence, border-crossing: global expressions of self and society: "A terror to gods and men" and themselves: the furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism / Sara Warner; Monkey fragments: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The monkey king / Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes / Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; "Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?" the feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema / Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Love : Sarah Kane / Anja Müller-Wood

Part II. Of archetypes, creativity and ethics: inscribing the feminine in mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sibyl and Phaedra / Olga Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad / Elodie Rousselot; Making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The seventh garment / Tatjana Aleksi; Flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema screenwriting / Sue Clayton

Part III. Instead of an afterword: Lot's wife / Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda / Marina Warner ; Cancellanda / Marina Warner.