Hi All,
For this blog post, I’d like you to
turn your critical energies to thinking about contemporary representations of
the witch or the werewolf. Choose one example to analyze in a blog post that
makes reference to our course materials. As was clear from the examples
mentioned in class today, the witch and the werewolf (perhaps less so than the
witch) have been assimilated into popular and dominant cultures in very ways.
Witches no longer seem to cause the same level of moral panic in those who
uphold our cultural norms today. Werewolves can be friends and love-interests
(think Twilight).
So,
with this in mind, how is the figure of the witch put to work today? How does
it function in ways similar to, or perhaps at odds with, the role of the witch
in the early modern period, as discussed by Palmer? Or, how has the werewolf,
in its contemporary manifestations, carried on or altered the historical cases
of the werewolf in our readings. What might these contemporary representations
of these monsters say about shifts in class, gender, or race?
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