Monstrous Textualities (eBook)

Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance

Anya Heise-von der Lippe (Autor)

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2021
304 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-759-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Monstrous textuality emerges when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein reflect the monstrous in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance. It allows writers to meta-narratively reflect their own poetics and textual production, and reclaim authority over their work under circumstances of systemic cultural oppression and Othering. This book traces the representation of other Others through Black feminist hauntology in Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) and Love (2003); it explores fat freak embodiment as a feminist resistance strategy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus (1984) and Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle (1976); and it reads Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy (2003-13) and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl (1995) within a framework of critical posthumanist and cyborg theory. The result is a comprehensive argument about how these texts can be read within a framework of critical posthumanist questioning of knowledge production, and of epistemological exploration, beyond the exclusionary humanist paradigm.

Autor

The book addresses an international academic readership from across the humanities (most prominently literary studies and cultural studies), interested in the Gothic, critical posthumanist studies and post-/decolonial writing strategies in both their research and teaching at an advanced undergraduate and post-graduate level.

Inhalt

Introduction: Teratologies
Troubling Genealogies: Monstrous Textuality and Narratives of Resistance in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
I: What Moves at the Margin
2 Haunted Narratives
3 Monstrous Narratives
II: A Female Monster Larger Than Life
Introduction
4 Reframing Narratives
5 Corporeal Discourses
6 ‘A Female Monster Larger than Life’: Fatness and Resistance
III: Hideous Progeny
Introduction
7 Posthuman Reading Practices
8 Posthuman Writing Practices
9 Posthuman Bodies in/as Narrative
Conclusion
Conclusion: ‘The Promises of Monsters’
Notes
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Gothic • monstrous • Narratives • of • Other • resistance • Textualities • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-78683-759-5 / 1786837595
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-759-2 / 9781786837592