title: Re-visioning the spider woman archetype in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
abstract: The article examines the transformation of spider woman archetype from Manuel Puig's adaptation of his novel to a play, and other adaptations into a film and a musical. The paper examines how the archetype's image and function shift when 're-visioned' by various artists and performed in disparate social contexts.
authors.forename: Mira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wiegmann
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory