Author: Noelia Muñoz
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“A Better Future Is in Your Hands”: Transhumanism and Feminism in The Power (TV Series 2023)
Abstract TV series The Power (2023), based on Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, tells the story of how teenage girls progressively develop an inborn new organ that allows them to electrocute people, empowering women and eventually reversing patriarchal societies. The transhumanist idea of enhancing and transforming our bodies to evolve as humans and…
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“’Why do they hate us so much?’: Women’s Vulnerability and Resistance in Julian Rathbone’s The Mutiny (2007)”
Abstract: Neo-Victorianism is concerned with the re-writing of the Victorian past and establishing parallelisms with the present; also, with giving voice to muted discourses. Britain was a huge Empire in the nineteenth century and the Indian Mutiny was one of the most violent episodes in its history. Postcolonial neo-Victorian narratives are a memorial practice that…