Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb

Final Girl by Daphne Gottlieb

Final Girl -- the last girl left alive in the syntax of the "slasher"-- traces the history of the femme fatale in a sequence of poems and stories that display the verve and wit readers have come to expect from Gottlieb. In Final Girl Gottlieb is the survivor, the one who remains to tell the story- what was done to others, what was done to her, what might yet be done to her.
Sexy and tart, dark and comic, low-down and high-hearted poems such as Suture, Slash, Vamp, Bride of Reanimator and The Babysitter Gottlieb identifies and articulates the desires, fears, traumas, both personal and social, out of which pop culture is made...and then she feeds pop culture back to itself.
Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb finds resonances in sources as disparate as the early American captivity narrative, queer and feminist film theory, and her own mother's death from breast cancer. Through such iconic American figures as Mary Rowlandson, Marilyn Monroe and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb delineates the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure, and transgression--and, in so doing, synthesizes the death and life of the American female.

Daphne Gottlieb is the author of ten novels, the most recent of which is Pretty Much Dead, a collection of short stories. Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, a collection of letters from Death Row sent by the first female serial killer to her childhood best friend, is one of her previous works. She's also the author of five poetry collections, the editor of two anthologies, and the co-creator of the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious with artist Diane DiMassa. She's been on the road nonstop, leading solo tours and sharing the stage with Hal Sirowitz, Lydia Lunch, and Maggie Estep. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have featured in more than 50 anthologies, including SXSW, Bumbershoot, and LadyFest Bay Area.

Daphne is a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and has won the Acker Award for Achievement in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry. She currently resides in San Francisco, where she is regularly seen holding Doomsday Honeymoon, a three-pound toothless humpback chihuahua.

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ISBN 13	9781887128971
ISBN 10	1887128972
Title	Final Girl
Author	Daphne Gottlieb
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Soft Skull Press
Year published	2003-09-22
Number of pages	130
Prizes	Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2004, Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2003
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