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‘There’s a Special Kind of Monster that is a Woman’: Locating Female Subjectivity in the Narrative of the Monstrous Murderess in Netflix’s Alias Grace

Nikita Gloria Pinto

Publication: Volume 3 Issue 1

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Keywords: Postmodernist Poetics, Embedded Narrative, Metafiction, Ontological Dominant, Realities, Memory, Language

Nikita Gloria Pinto (nikita96pinto@gmail.com) is an M.Phil. student in English Literature at Stella Maris College, University of Madras, India. Her research interests primarily lean towards speculative fiction as found in the visual mediums of film, television, and comic books. An enthusiast of superhero narratives, her current research focuses on the super-powered body as a transhuman body, its paradoxical treatment as a figure of abjection and desire, and its implications for the self and society.