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Wynonna Earp: An Atypical Western Representation
| Resumo: | This dissertation deals mainly with Beau Smith’s Wynonna Earp (1997), a comic series, as part of the reevaluation the western genre has been going through. The American West, a space where men dominate and very few women have been allowed in, is also a main focus, since some female characters who have been undermined and others who have thrived will be scrutinized in works such as The Virginian (1902) by Owen Wister, Westworld (2016) by Jonathan Nolan and more extensively, Wynonna Earp, in mediums such as comics and television.Likewise, the social and political changes brought on with time will be at the core of this work as they help to elucidate and describe how the western has been evolving in the way it represents women and allowing them to become heroes in a space and narrative where the figure of the cowboy has been idolized and mythicized in American history. Wynonna Earp demonstrates the progressive ideas of our time and shows how persistence might be central to change. |
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| Autores principais: | Simão, Ana Beatriz da Piedade |
| Assunto: | Wynonna Earp Westerns Oeste Americano Banda desenhada Comics American literature Cowboy Myth Stereotypes Change Western Mito Estereótipo Mudança |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | This dissertation deals mainly with Beau Smith’s Wynonna Earp (1997), a comic series, as part of the reevaluation the western genre has been going through. The American West, a space where men dominate and very few women have been allowed in, is also a main focus, since some female characters who have been undermined and others who have thrived will be scrutinized in works such as The Virginian (1902) by Owen Wister, Westworld (2016) by Jonathan Nolan and more extensively, Wynonna Earp, in mediums such as comics and television.Likewise, the social and political changes brought on with time will be at the core of this work as they help to elucidate and describe how the western has been evolving in the way it represents women and allowing them to become heroes in a space and narrative where the figure of the cowboy has been idolized and mythicized in American history. Wynonna Earp demonstrates the progressive ideas of our time and shows how persistence might be central to change. |
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