Women subverting horror with Mariana Enríquez, Claire Kohda and Sophie White

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4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Octavia Bright talks to highly-acclaimed Argentinian author Mariana Enríquez. about her unsettling new novel which addresses the horrors of her country's past through the prism of family, heritage and the occult.

And how are a new wave of women writers subverting traditional forms of horror fiction? Claire Kohda discusses the connections between mixed-race experiences and vampires, and Irish writer Sophie White explains why women have always had an affinity with the often male-dominated genre.

Book List – Sunday 27 November and Thursday 1 December

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda Where I End by Sophie White Dracula by Bram Stoker Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Leigh Allen

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0:37.3	To learn what we fear is to learn who we are, wrote Shirley Jackson.
0:42.2	As she puts it, horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls. Women have long been the
0:48.8	subjects of horror stories, not to mention victims of their violence, but in recent years, there's
0:53.8	been a resurgence of women
0:55.1	reclaiming the genre as authors too, and that's what we'll be illuminating today on Open Book.
1:01.1	So, are we seeing a new wave of horror writing authored by women that explores monstrosity from a
1:06.8	different perspective? Later, I'll be discussing that with Claire Coda and Sophie White.
1:12.4	But first, Mariana Enriquez, an Argentinian writer who's been dubbed the Queen of Latin
1:17.7	American Gothic and who has plaud it from Casua Ishiguru to Patty Smith. Our share of
1:23.5	night is the first of her novels to reach English-speaking readers thanks to a new translation
1:27.8	by Megan McDowell. It tells the dark and often gruesome story of a medium called Juan,
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