Senior lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. She writes about and teaches children’s literature and culture. Her previous publications include articles on children's Gothic, Weird fiction, witches and the postcolonial Gothic. She is co-editor of the edited collection, Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches on Helen Oyeyemi with Dr Sarah Ilott.
Hag, temptress or feminist icon? The witch in popular culture
May 22, 2017 12:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
You would have thought that Western society might have grown out of the habit of portraying powerful women as witches, but a trope that usually ended badly for women in the Middle Ages is still being used in the 21st...
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