The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture

Susan Redington Bobby, assistant professor of English at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, USA teaches classic and contemporary fairy tales and adolescent literature. She has chaired panels and presented papers on topics related to adolescent literature, fairy tales, heroism, and gender at various conferences. Eileen M. Harney is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA. Her research interests include the treatment of gender in medieval traditions and texts, contemporary depictions of female bodies and the heroic female character, and gender constructs in comics, television series, and films.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction—Tracking the Elusive Goddess: Artemis’ Presence

Pop Culture (Eileen M. Harney)

“Alone, I can’t be the Mockingjay”: Katniss Everdeen and the Artemis Archetype (Jessica Auz and Kaitlin Tonti)

“Paradise exists in the shadow of the sword”: The Feminist Avenger in Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty (Sara Hosey)

Huntress, Hacker, Heroine: Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander as a Modern Incarnation of Artemis (Kathleen Lynn Kress)

The Artemis Archetype in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow (Randall Clark)

Healing the Divided Self: Kara “Starbuck” Thrace and the Call to Artemis (Susan Redington Bobby)

Race and Sexuality in the Artemis Female: Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (Chinyelu Agwu)

Sword, Stoicism, Salvation: Michonne’s ­Post-Apocalyptic Evocation of Artemis (Brittany Hirth)

Struggling for Dominance: Artemis Confronts Other Olympian Goddesses in the Works of Joss Whedon (Eileen M. Harney)

Afterword—“Staring at the same tree missing the forest”: Artemisian Heroines in Our Midst (Susan Redington Bobby)

Comprehensive Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index