Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture (Hardcover, New edition)

In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized groups appropriate monstrosity as a means of resistance, as well as on how we can understand oppression and privilege through monstrosity, this book offers another way to conceptualize the politics of representation. Through critical analyses of experiences of women of color in the academy, the media framing of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes, the use of monstrosity in unpublished work from the Gloria Anzaldua archives, post-feminist discourses in American Mary and The Lords of Salem, and Kanye West's strategic employment of ideologies of monstrosity, this book offers new ways to think about Otherness in this contemporary moment.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Bernadette Marie Calafell
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	139
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2738-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-2738-5
Barcode:	9781433127380

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