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Monstrous Textualities
Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
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This book will appeal to readers interested in Gothic literature, feminist theory, posthumanism, and cultural studies, particularly scholars and students exploring critical approaches to resistance and embodiment in narrative forms.
Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.
• It brings together a range of critical approaches (the Gothic, monster theory, critical posthumanism, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, feminist theory, fat studies, cyborg theory) including very recent forays into posthumanist / new materialist intersections. • It contributes new readings to the critical canon on a wide range of critically acclaimed texts (from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein via Toni Morrison’s and Angela Carter’s work to Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy). • It explores narrative strategies of resistance against systemic cultural oppression and challenges a number of critical approaches in the process.
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A literary study on Gothic narratives of resistance that brings together a range of critical approaches.
Monstrous Textualities emerge when Gothic narratives like Frankenstein employ the monstrous in their narrative structure to create stories of resistance, allowing writers to reflect upon their own poetics as they reclaim authority over their work under oppressive circumstances. This book traces the representation of the other through Black feminist hauntology in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love.
It also explores fat freak embodiment as a feminist resistance strategy in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle. Finally, it reads Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl 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 the critical posthumanist questioning of knowledge production, as well as an epistemological exploration beyond an exclusionary humanist paradigm.
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781786837585
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 June 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Illustration: Yes
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 304
About the Author
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.
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