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First published: March 1, 2025 - Last updated: March 1, 2025
TITLE INFORMATION
Author: Gwen Bergner
Title: Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse
Subtitle: Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
Journal: MFS: Modern Fiction Studies
Volume: 70
Issue: 4
Year: Winter 2024
Pages: 609-632
pISSN: 0026-7724 -
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eISSN: 1080-658X -
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Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
20th Century |
American History:
U.S. History |
Society:
Rape Culture;
Representations:
Literary Texts /
Richard Matheson
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author:
Gwen Bergner,
Center for Women's and Gender Studies,
West Virginia University -
Academia.edu,
ResearchGate
Abstract:
»This essay considers how the sexual violence in Matheson’s iconic post-apocalypse novel dramatizes social tensions arising from Cold War “containment” policies that corralled affluent, white families in the suburbs to prevent socio-political unrest. Neville, the last man, must defeat a horde of zombie-vampire women and capture the lone woman survivor to restore the nuclear family and ensure human survival. Neville’s rationalized gender violence recalls “wife-capture” tropes in earlier prehistoric fictions and anticipates recent zombie apocalypse texts that also naturalize sexual violence as necessary to reproductive futures, thus revealing the social logic of “rape culture.”«
(Source: MFS: Modern Fiction Studies)
Contents:
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Abstract (p. 609) |
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Swinging in the Suburbs (p. 612) |
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Sex and the Single Man (p. 612) |
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The Alien in the House (p. 617) |
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Back to the Future: Prehistoric Wife-Capture and Reproductive Futurism (p. 619) |
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The Secret Sharer (p. 619) |
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Last Man/First Man (p. 621) |
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Reproducing a Human Future (p. 624) |
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Notes (p. 628) |
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Works Cited (p. 630) |
Lecture:
Bergner, Gwen. »Rape Culture and the Zombie Apocalypse: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend.« 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore 2022. -
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Feminist terminology /
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Literature:
American literature /
Richard Matheson,
I Am Legend (novel)
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