Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

Auteur

Nizar Zouidi is Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Hail, Saudi Arabia, and at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia. Zouidi is the author of a number of book chapters and journal articles about the representations of evil in early modern drama.

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Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

Contenu

Section I: The (dis)embodiment of evil in medieval and Renaissance moments

1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman

Bibhash Choudhury

2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil

Dustin Lovett

3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Jeffrey McCambridge

4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of Hijab Pornography

Ibtisam M. Abujad

5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, the Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk

Jared S. Johnson

Section II: Performing moral deformity in the Shakespearean moment

6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi

Hend Hamed

7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare's The Tempest & Macbeth

Lisann Anders

8 The Demon's Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain's Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare

Nizar Zouidi

9 It is his hand: Villainy through letters in Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night

Sélima Lejri

10 Villainy as a facet of Nietzsche's Wirkliche Historie prefigured in Shakespeare's Richard II and concretized in Brecht's Man Equals Man and The Measures Taken

Mariem **Khmiri

Section III: Language, race and the dehumanization of the evil other in (post)colonial moments</p...