"It's good to be me.": Buffy's Resistance to Renaming

In a series rife with examples of renaming, self-naming, loss of name, nick-naming, and name-based magic, Buffy Summers stands out as a character resistant to any attempt to over-write her core identity through re-naming or un-naming. The female naming plot, the name imposed or taken away by anothe...

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Main Author: Janet Brennan Croft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Study of Buffy+ 2020-06-01
Series:Slayage
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Online Access:https://www.whedonstudies.tv/uploads/2/6/2/8/26288593/croft_-_slayage_18.1_-_pp._1-18.pdf