Lady White Bone: The Making of a Monstress
Lady White Bone, a demon from the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, has grown into one of the most celebrated femme fatales in popular imagination. This paper explores the formation of this monster as a gendered skeleton and its association with the dead body. Contextualizing this charact...
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