Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649084
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Jessica remains the captive of J. Harker, leader of the 68 reincarnated men responsible for the birth of the Snake Woman. Their individual destinies require that they destroy each other, so how will Jessica react when Harker offers her an alternative, an alternative that will turn Jessica Peterson into a cold blooded killer!
SNAKEWOMAN, Issue 5
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649084
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Jessica remains the captive of J. Harker, leader of the 68 reincarnated men responsible for the birth of the Snake Woman. Their individual destinies require that they destroy each other, so how will Jessica react when Harker offers her an alternative, an alternative that will turn Jessica Peterson into a cold blooded killer!
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649084
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Jessica remains the captive of J. Harker, leader of the 68 reincarnated men responsible for the birth of the Snake Woman. Their individual destinies require that they destroy each other, so how will Jessica react when Harker offers her an alternative, an alternative that will turn Jessica Peterson into a cold blooded killer!
SNAKEWOMAN, Issue 15
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649181
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). A world away from the life she once knew in Los Angeles, few things have changed in Jessica Peterson's life. Her hair, her address, her friends - sure these things are different. But she still walks the world upon the edge of a knife: on one side, peril surrounds her, as the 68 - and a new, mysterious force - seek her destruction; on the other side, the Snake Goddess continues to churn inside her, thirsting for revenge... and blood. However, there are forces of good at work as well. Jess finds a friend and guide in Sari, an old Indian woman she met in Goa, who turns out to be the reincarnation of one of the villagers slaughtered by the 68 those 300 years ago. As Sari leads the way into the heart of the Kabini jungle - they do not know that they're being followed, by the 68, yes, but also by a darker, deadlier spirit than anyone can anticipate.
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649181
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). A world away from the life she once knew in Los Angeles, few things have changed in Jessica Peterson's life. Her hair, her address, her friends - sure these things are different. But she still walks the world upon the edge of a knife: on one side, peril surrounds her, as the 68 - and a new, mysterious force - seek her destruction; on the other side, the Snake Goddess continues to churn inside her, thirsting for revenge... and blood. However, there are forces of good at work as well. Jess finds a friend and guide in Sari, an old Indian woman she met in Goa, who turns out to be the reincarnation of one of the villagers slaughtered by the 68 those 300 years ago. As Sari leads the way into the heart of the Kabini jungle - they do not know that they're being followed, by the 68, yes, but also by a darker, deadlier spirit than anyone can anticipate.
Arrival of the Snake-woman and Other Stories
Author: Olive Senior
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The second collection from Olive Senior, winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 1987 for Summer Lightning. Set again in Jamaica, these new stories continue to explore the child as an isolated individual coming to terms with the strange, harsh ways of the adult world.
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The second collection from Olive Senior, winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize in 1987 for Summer Lightning. Set again in Jamaica, these new stories continue to explore the child as an isolated individual coming to terms with the strange, harsh ways of the adult world.
Snakewoman of Little Egypt
Author: Robert Hellenga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608193233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.
SNAKEWOMAN, Issue 0
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649033
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Born, 1981. First kiss, 1996. Graduated with honors, 2002. Moved to Los Angeles, 2006. Within three years, she will have killed 68 men. Jessica Peterson is learning first-hand that the cycle of revenge cannot be broken. Without understanding why, she finds herself turning into a creature - a vicious Snakewoman. Her mission - to avenge a centuries old wrong that was conceived half a world away, deep in the jungles of India. Terrified by her true nature and hunted by a mysterious organization known only as "The 68," Jessica must confront the monster that lurks inside her before it is too late.
Publisher: Liquid Comics
ISBN: 1624649033
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Born, 1981. First kiss, 1996. Graduated with honors, 2002. Moved to Los Angeles, 2006. Within three years, she will have killed 68 men. Jessica Peterson is learning first-hand that the cycle of revenge cannot be broken. Without understanding why, she finds herself turning into a creature - a vicious Snakewoman. Her mission - to avenge a centuries old wrong that was conceived half a world away, deep in the jungles of India. Terrified by her true nature and hunted by a mysterious organization known only as "The 68," Jessica must confront the monster that lurks inside her before it is too late.
Shekhar Kapur's Snake Woman: Tale of the snake charmer
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Virgin Comics Llc
ISBN: 9781934413203
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Jessica Petersen has grown accustomed to her "snake-ish" ways ... that is, turning into a half-woman, half-snake. As the reincarnated Snake Goddess, Jess has wreaked a path of vengeance against the 68 - those who had ruthlessly desecrated the sacred temple of the Snake God in the 18th century. Harker, head of the 68, is pleased with the arrangement he's made with Jess, and is determined to end the cycle of reincarnation he faces by helping her kill those he is meant to lead - even if that means destroying The Faithful, the secret society within the 68 created to protect its members from any harm. As the blood count gets thicker, Jess finds herself amidst a labyrinth of duplicity. Between the Faithful, Harker, and those closest to Jess, who can she trust, and who will pay the price of the Snake Woman's blood bath?
Publisher: Virgin Comics Llc
ISBN: 9781934413203
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Jessica Petersen has grown accustomed to her "snake-ish" ways ... that is, turning into a half-woman, half-snake. As the reincarnated Snake Goddess, Jess has wreaked a path of vengeance against the 68 - those who had ruthlessly desecrated the sacred temple of the Snake God in the 18th century. Harker, head of the 68, is pleased with the arrangement he's made with Jess, and is determined to end the cycle of reincarnation he faces by helping her kill those he is meant to lead - even if that means destroying The Faithful, the secret society within the 68 created to protect its members from any harm. As the blood count gets thicker, Jess finds herself amidst a labyrinth of duplicity. Between the Faithful, Harker, and those closest to Jess, who can she trust, and who will pay the price of the Snake Woman's blood bath?
Snake Woman
Author: Wiliomar Abreu
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312962291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A plane crash in 1966 in the Amazon rainforest, an orphan baby, and the legend of the Brazilian forest giant Sucuri. These elements are intertwined in romance, fiction, and suspense on Wiliomar Abreu work. The plot takes place in different cities in the state of California in the United States, where the police officer Ketlim McGray, who hides a supernatural anomaly, was prevented to have a loving relationship with the love of her life. Next to the great doctor and adoptive father John McGray, Ketlim goes in search of the past trying to figure out the hidden puzzle that prevented her from living her great love.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312962291
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A plane crash in 1966 in the Amazon rainforest, an orphan baby, and the legend of the Brazilian forest giant Sucuri. These elements are intertwined in romance, fiction, and suspense on Wiliomar Abreu work. The plot takes place in different cities in the state of California in the United States, where the police officer Ketlim McGray, who hides a supernatural anomaly, was prevented to have a loving relationship with the love of her life. Next to the great doctor and adoptive father John McGray, Ketlim goes in search of the past trying to figure out the hidden puzzle that prevented her from living her great love.
The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought
Author: S. E. Jackson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640140867
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that womenplayed on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1640140867
Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that womenplayed on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.
The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Author: Angela Giallongo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527512134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527512134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.
The Global White Snake
Author: Liang Luo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129155
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvented in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English-speaking worlds, among others. Moreover, the inter-Asian voyages and global circulations of the White Snake legends have enabled them to become repositories of diverse and complex meanings for a great number of people, serving as reservoirs for polyphonic expressions ranging from the attempts to consolidate authoritarian power to the celebrations of minority rights and activism. The Global White Snake uncovers how the White Snake legend often acts as an unsettling narrative of radical tolerance for hybrid sexualities, loving across traditional boundaries, subverting authority, and valuing the strange and the uncanny. A timely mediation and reflection on our contemporary moment of continued struggle for minority rights and social justice, The Global White Snake revives the radical anti-authoritarian spirit slithering under the tales of monsters and demons, love and lust, and reminds us of the power of the fantastic and the fabulous in inspiring and empowering personal and social transformations.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472129155
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels within Asia and across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvented in the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English-speaking worlds, among others. Moreover, the inter-Asian voyages and global circulations of the White Snake legends have enabled them to become repositories of diverse and complex meanings for a great number of people, serving as reservoirs for polyphonic expressions ranging from the attempts to consolidate authoritarian power to the celebrations of minority rights and activism. The Global White Snake uncovers how the White Snake legend often acts as an unsettling narrative of radical tolerance for hybrid sexualities, loving across traditional boundaries, subverting authority, and valuing the strange and the uncanny. A timely mediation and reflection on our contemporary moment of continued struggle for minority rights and social justice, The Global White Snake revives the radical anti-authoritarian spirit slithering under the tales of monsters and demons, love and lust, and reminds us of the power of the fantastic and the fabulous in inspiring and empowering personal and social transformations.