Post-gothic female monstrosity rewritings
The novel Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley and the cinematographic word Lisa Frankenstein (2024) by Zelda Williams.
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https://doi.org/10.24310/tlc.7.2025.21516Keywords:
posthumano, monstruos, El doble, adaptación, feminismo, adolescenciaAbstract
The article focuses on stablishing a relationship between the film Lisa Frankenstein (2024) by Zelda Williams and the gothics elements of the canonical novel Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley. In addition, it examines the cinematic work as a post-gothic feminist reformulation of the monster figure in the coming-of-age horror tradition, exploring a conflict of fractured, marginalized, and posthuman identities. Therefore, the following fundamental axes are addressed: the female role in gothic fiction, the monster as a psychic double, the abhuman figure, and the reappropriation of corporeality in material feminisms.
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