Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds

Cover\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nNotes on Contributors\nAcknowledgments\nPrologue Simon Bacon\nIntroduction Simon Bacon\nPart One Purgatorial Space\n	1 Miasma Theory, Particulate Matter and Modern Horror Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock\n	2 Between Hell and Hel: Gender, History, and Nature in Subterranean Spaces Elana Gomel\n	3 La Llorona Hauntings: Storytelling Feminicide at the Purgatorial Mexico/US Border Cristina Santos and Sarah Revilla-Sanchez\nPart Two Daughters, Mothers, Trauma\n	4 “I Lost All Hope of Going up the Hill”: Silent Hill as a Female Specific Inferno Dawn Stobbart\n	5 “Mother Is God in the Eyes of a Child”: Doppelgängers, Punishment, and Maternal Otherworlds in Silent Hill and Triangle Catherine Pugh\n	6 Pray and Obey: The Horror (and Purgatory) of Religious Fundamentalism Nicola Young\nPart Three Female Development in Purgatorial Spaces\n	7 The New Eden? The Female-Centered Purgatorial Space of Dollhouse Erin Giannini\n	8 The Vampire in the Attic: Constructing Monstrous Female Identities in Liminal, Purgatorial Spaces Taryn Tavener-Smith\n	9 “Into the Further We Go”: Exploring Gender, World-Building, and the Return of the Fantastic in the Insidious Franchise Mark Richard Adams\n	10 Coded Outcry: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985 and 2017–Present) and The Testaments (2019) Gina Wisker\nPart Four Spaces of Female Resistance\n	11 Of Monstrous Spaces: Female Identity in American Horror Story: Murder House and American Horror Story: Hotel Pembe Gözde Erdogan\n	12 “This Time I’ll Get It Right”: Female Coming-of-Age within Purgatorial Time Loops Shawn Edrei\n	13 The Trauma We Inherit: Sister Night, Black Female Identity, and the Parallel Racial Purgatory of Watchmen Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.\n	14 “We’re Human Too, You Know”: Tethered Journeys and Shadowed Struggles in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019) Nancy Johnson-Hunt\nIndex