How women artists and activists across the globe employ myth to communicate personal and historical experiences of violence is the central concern of this innovative collection. Rather than compartmentalizing women's artistic production within generic or geographical boundaries, the volume encompasses literary criticism, discussion of film and art, artwork, autobiographical accounts and pieces of original creative writing, thereby promulgating an inclusive way to approach literature and the arts.

Sanja Bahun-Radunovic is Assistant Professor in Literature and Film, University of Essex, U.K. She has edited numerous anthologies and authored a monograph entitled Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning. V.G. Julie Rajan is Visiting Assistant Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, U.S.A. She has edited several anthologies and written a monograph entitled Female Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence.

Contents: Introduction: Cassandra's gift, Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan; Part I Myth, Violence, Border-Crossing: Global Expressions of Self and Society: 'A terror to gods and men' and themselves: the Furies collective, the myth of the angry lesbian, and theatrics of terrorism, Sara Warner; Monkey remnants: paternity, ancestry, and Chineseness in Patricia Chao's The Monkey King, Belinda Kong; The ethics of animal-human existence: Marie Darrieussecq's Truismes, Sanja Bahun-Radunovic; 'Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?' The feminine and the mythic in Indian cinema, Shreerekha Subramanian; The fatal effects of Phaedra's Love: Sarah Kane, Anja Mÿller-Wood. Part II Of Archetypes, Creativity and Ethics: Inscribing the Feminine in Mythistory: The body and the voice: Marina Tsvetaeva's The Sybil and Phaedra, Olga Peters Hasty; Re-writing myth, femininity and violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, Elodie Rousselot; Making patriarchal history women's own: Eugenia Fakinou's The Seventh Garment, Tatjana Aleksic; Flawed heroes, fragmented heroines: the use of myth in cinema writing, Sue Clayton. Part III Instead of an Afterword; Lot's wife, Kiki Smith; Introduction to Cancellanda, Marina Warner; Cancellanda, Marina Warner; Index.