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Jane Rogers’s novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011) is a contemporary rewriting of the classical myth of Iphigenia, which articulates an intricate intersectionality of reproductive dystopias, fairy tales, gothic fiction, the Bible, and Shakespeare, as well as post-humanist and ecocritical discourses. At the heart of the analytical framework and aims of this research is Rogers’s feminist refiguration of this literary material, meaningfully addressed through a structured approach to current theoretical debates. Its complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions are eloquently projected onto this confessional narrative to problematize the gender issues it raises and calibrate its effectiveness as a critical dystopia.

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Fairy Tale, Myth, and Reproductive Dystopia: Jane Rogers’s The Testament of Jessie Lamb

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    2026年

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  • Daniel Nisa Cáceres

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Jane Rogers’s novel The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011) is a contemporary rewriting of the classical myth of Iphigenia, which articulates an intricate intersectionality of reproductive dystopias, fairy tales, gothic fiction, the Bible, and Shakespeare, as well as post-humanist and ecocritical discourses. At the heart of the analytical framework and aims of this research is Rogers’s feminist refiguration of this literary material, meaningfully addressed through a structured approach to current theoretical debates. Its complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions are eloquently projected onto this confessional narrative to problematize the gender issues it raises and calibrate its effectiveness as a critical dystopia.