A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across
genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational
texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires,
banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons,
golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the
ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have
haunted the human imagination, giving shape to the fears and
desires of their time. And as long as there have been monsters,
there have been attempts to make sense of them, to explain where
they come from and what they mean. This book collects the best of
what contemporary scholars have to say on the subject, in the
process creating a map of the monstrous across the vast and complex
terrain of the human psyche. Editor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
prepares the way with a genealogy of monster theory, traveling from
the earliest explanations of monsters through psychoanalysis,
poststructuralism, and cultural studies, to the development of
monster theory per se-and including Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's
foundational essay "Monster Theory (Seven Theses)," reproduced here
in its entirety. There follow sections devoted to the terminology
and concepts used in talking about monstrosity; the relevance of
race, religion, gender, class, sexuality, and physical appearance;
the application of monster theory to contemporary cultural concerns
such as ecology, religion, and terrorism; and finally the
possibilities monsters present for envisioning a different future.
Including the most interesting and important proponents of monster
theory and its progenitors, from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva to
J. Halberstam, Donna Haraway, Barbara Creed, and Stephen T. Asma-as
well as harder-to-find contributions such as Robin Wood's and
Masahiro Mori's-this is the most extensive and comprehensive
collection of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity across
disciplines and methods ever to be assembled and will serve as an
invaluable resource for students of the uncanny in all its guises.
Contributors: Stephen T. Asma, Columbia College Chicago; Timothy K.
Beal, Case Western Reserve U; Harry Benshoff, U of North Texas;
Bettina Bildhauer, U of St. Andrews; Noel Carroll, The Graduate
Center, CUNY; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Arizona State U; Barbara Creed,
U of Melbourne; Michael Dylan Foster, UC Davis; Sigmund Freud;
Elizabeth Grosz, Duke U; J. Halberstam, Columbia U; Donna Haraway,
UC Santa Cruz; Julia Kristeva, Paris Diderot U; Anthony Lioi, The
Julliard School; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U; Masahiro
Mori; Annalee Newitz; Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers U; Amit A. Rai, Queen
Mary U of London; Margrit Shildrick, Stockholm U; Jon Stratton, U
of South Australia; Erin Suzuki, UC San Diego; Robin Wood, York U;
Alexa Wright, U of Westminster.
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