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Stephenie Meyer’s Life and Death has a mopey teenage boy lusting over a sexy, strong, much older woman. That’s thrillingly subversive
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward in the film adaptation of Twilight. Stephenie Meyer wanted to move away from Bella’s ‘damsel-in-distress’ qualities in Life and Death.
Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 13.01 GMT
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of Twilight, Stephenie Meyer has released a “reimagined” version of the novel called Life and Death, in which all of the characters have swapped gender. Sultry, mopey teen girl Bella is now sultry, mopey teen boy Beau and sparkly vampire Edward is now sparkly vampire – uh – Edythe. Baffling name choices aside (and what else would you expect from an author whose dream couple called their daughter Renesmee) this is a brilliant idea.
Stephenie Meyer swaps genders of lovers in new Twilight novel
Gender swap is a fan-fiction trope that attempts to fix problems with the original story. The debate over whether or not Meyer’s new novel counts as fan fiction is already aflame. Can it be fan fiction if it is by the author of the original work? Is fan fiction, by definition, written by fans? No one seems to know for sure.
Mainstream culture has also been known to gender swap the occasional character: Elementary’s Joan Watson, Battlestar Galactica’s Kara Thrace and Hannibal’s Alana Bloom were all originally male (although it is notable that such gender swaps tend to go one way).
Meyer has claimed that she wrote the new book because Bella’s “damsel in distress” qualities bothered her. Life and Death is apparently a demonstration of how anyone, male or female, would react in the same way to a sexy, immortal love interest. But I’m not sure it exactly plays out like that. The idea of a moody teenage boy going gooey over a centuries-old, mysterious, super-strong woman who can fly feels revolutionary. Add in the fact that the book is from his point of view, allowing pages of moping about whether or not this powerful older woman actually likes him, and a pack of lady werewolves, and this is sounding like the book I’ve been waiting to read all my life. What’s more, in a live-tweeted reading, fan culture writer M Flourish Klink notes that Meyer’s prose skills have improved in the last decade.
Gender swapping is a powerful way to analyse the gendered nature of fiction. The more original and surprising the reworking is, the more tired and cliched the original almost certainly was. If it feels astounding to have a young guy besotted with an older, powerful woman, that is because the reverse was something we’d seen a thousand times before. Gender-swapped Twilight will therefore only impact on our appreciation of the original-flavour Twilight.
Which Twilight character are you? – quiz
I’ve used the technique myself in fan-fiction writing to demonstrate lazy gender stereotyping in popular culture. For Game of Thrones I devised the thrilling idea of Lady Tyrion – how much better would that show be if everyone’s favourite character was a disabled, bookish, promiscuous woman? When I did the same thing for Love Actually, I accidentally discovered the greatest film never made: a female prime minister falls for a member of her domestic staff and a female author who loves yet another domestic who doesn’t speak English. It is equally pleasurable to apply this to any sexist classic of a bygone era.
Life and Death sounds brilliant, not because it demonstrates what is right with Twilight, but rather because it draws attention to what was wrong with it. Sadly Meyer has said that this is a standalone rather than a trilogy. Although in some ways this might be for the best. The scene in the third book where Edward helps Bella give birth in the world’s most horrifying emergency caesarean section (vampire teeth are involved) is traumatising enough without swapping the main players’ genders.
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