The Fate of Your Life – in Your Hands!: Or, an Exploration of Female Objectification and Posthumanism in Elaine Lee’s Starstruck
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2024-06-15
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This thesis explores themes of female objectification in combination with posthumanism and storytelling mediums in the Starstruck works of Elaine Lee, focusing specifically on the play Starstruck (2013) and the graphic novel Starstruck (2012). Through conducting a close reading of both texts, this thesis examines the author’s treatment of key themes, such as the objectification of female characters, and how the characters can achieve empowerment by embracing the fact that their bodies are unfixed. Additionally, the thesis investigates how the storytelling medium, in both the play and the graphic novel, is used to convey feminist and posthuman themes. Through close examination of the source texts, this thesis aims to argue that in Elaine Lee’s play Starstruck and the graphic novel Starstruck, by embracing the idea that their bodies and identities are unfixed and capable of transformation, the female characters are able to carve their own path towards physical autonomy.
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