'We’re All the Same Nothingness': The ‘unhinged woman’ trope in contemporary literary fiction

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dc.contributor.authorBill, Courtney
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-08T14:28:43Z
dc.date.available2025-05-08T14:28:43Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe ‘unhinged woman trope’ is an emerging trend in literary fiction wherein women are unlikable in some way, whether it be morally complex, self-destructive, ugly, greedy, cruel, or otherwise defy patriarchal expectations. From weird to borderline insane, this trope functions both as a literary form and an acknowledgement of our shared humanity. I used this research to complete a first draft of a novel “Viral” which follows an unnamed protagonist who obsessively stalks a series of women in modern-day Port Coquitlam.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduate
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22197
dc.publisherUniversity Of Victoria
dc.subjectliterature
dc.subjectfiction
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectfeminist
dc.subjectnovel
dc.subjectcontemporary
dc.title'We’re All the Same Nothingness': The ‘unhinged woman’ trope in contemporary literary fiction
dc.typePoster

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