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The Truths of Monsters - Coming of Age with Fantastic Media (Paperback)
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The Truths of Monsters - Coming of Age with Fantastic Media (Paperback)
Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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As monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols,
guarding the borders that society creates to protect its values and
norms. Adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at
crossing borders to learn the rules of the culture that one will
fit into as an adult. Exploring the roles of monsters in
coming-of-age narratives and the need to confront and understand
the monstrous, this work explores recent developments in the
presentation of monsters--such as the vampire, the zombie, and the
man-made monster--in maturation narratives, then moves on to
discuss monsters inhabiting the psychic landscapes of child
characters. Finally, it touches on monsters in science fiction, in
which facing the monstrous is a variation of the New World
narrative. Discussions of novels by M. R. Carey, Suzanne Collins,
Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Sarah Maria Griffin,
Seanan McGuire, Stephenie Meyer, Patrick Ness, and Jon Skovron are
complemented by analysis of television series, such as Buffy the
Vampire Slayer and Westworld.
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