Essays about: "My Heart Is a Chainsaw"

Found 1 essay containing the words My Heart Is a Chainsaw.

  1. 1. “I’m not a Final Girl” An intersectional character analysis of Jade in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw and its pedagogical implications in the EFL classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jens Nilsson; [2023]
    Keywords : My Heart Is a Chainsaw; Final Girl; Intersectional Framework; identity; marginalization; alienation; empowerment; EFL classroom;

    Abstract : The following essay applies an intersectional lens to the character analysis of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021), as it aims to introduce EFL students to the principles of the intersectional theory framework. As Jade, as a way of dealing with her reality as an abused and marginalized young part-Native American adolescent, obsessively frames her real-life experiences in a slasher movie context, the novel explores the themes of identity, marginalization, empowerment through the way Jade sees herself in relation to the Final Girl: the archetypal female protagonist featured in slasher movies. READ MORE