This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La Malinche and La Llorona, examining the connections between these figures and their depictions from antiquity to modernity in a range of media.

Ana Filipa Prata is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities and Literature at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. Her research focuses especially on the study of transits and migrations in contemporary Portuguese and French literature, African literatures in Portuguese language, with a specific interest in postcolonial and gender discussions and, more recently, in the debate on world literature. She is the co-editor of Cities of the Lusophone World. Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations (2018).

Rodrigo Verano is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He has worked extensively in ancient Greek linguistics, especially in the fields of Discourse and conversation analysis focusing on literary dialogues from the classical period, and in the reception of Greek and Roman literature in the contemporary world. He is the editor of A Ítaca desde el Guaviare (2019), a collection of essays that explore Homer's poems from the Colombian post-conflict.

Part 1 Reshaping Identities and Geographies 1. How Medea Challenged "Western Civilization": Europe's Imperial Imaginary in Pasolini's Medea 2. Archipelagic Medea: (Re)Productive Labor in Maryse Condeì, Toni Morrison and Cherriìe Moraga 3. The Medea Disorder and the Writing of the Nation in Ventos do Apocalipse by Paulina Chiziane 4. Curtailed Motherhoods and the Matrix of (Post)Colonialism: Chicana Hybrid Prototypes Part 2 Performing Transgression at the Borders 5. Medea-Malinche, Malinche-Medea? Identity and Transformation in Colonized Cultures 6. Medea in the Borderlands. The New Mestiza in Luis Alfaro's Mojada 7. Rereading Medea Across Borders-Cultural Encounters and Postcolonial Rewrites in Liz Lochhead's Medea, Yüksel Pazarkaya's Mediha and Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea 8. Medaaye: Patriarchy, Love and Exile in Nineteenth-Century Yorubaland Part 3 Disseminating Reception, Reproduction and Waste 9. Hybridity and Alienation. Women's Narrative in Ana Castillo's So Far from God 10. Medea in the New Kingdom of Granada: Brujas, Hechiceras, Yerbateras 11. Medea in Gabon: A Postcolonial and Autobiographical Re-telling of the Medea Myth in Bessora's Novel Petroleum 12. "Not Before the People": Filicide, Revenge, and Ob-scenity in Andrés Baiz's Satanás 13. Reappropriation, Itinerancy, and Waste in Vik Muniz's Medea