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The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. The eclectic group of contributors to this volume represents areas of study not generally considered under the purview of monster studies, including world literature, classical studies, philosophy, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and gender studies.
Combining historical overviews with contemporary and global outlooks, this volume recontextualizes the monstrous entities that have always haunted the human imagination in the age of the Anthropocene. It also invites reflection on new forms of monstrosity in an era epitomized by an unprecedented deluge of (mis)information. Uniting researchers from varied academic backgrounds in a common effort to challenge the monstrous labels that have historically been imposed upon "the Other," this book endeavors above all to bring the monster out of the shadows and into the light of moral consideration.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)
Part I Ecological Perspectives
1. A Portrait of Fictional Characters as Darwinian Monsters
Dominique Lestel (Stanford University, USA), translated by Keith Moser
2. Tokyo Ghoul and the Trouble with Cannibalism
Tony Milligan (King's College London, UK)
3. Monster and Victim: Melusine from the Fourteenth Century to the Age of Homo Detritus
Jonathan Krell (University of Georgia, USA)
4. J. M. G. Le Clézio's Defense of the Human and Other-than-human Victims of the Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable" in the Mauritian Saga Alma
Keith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)
5. Strange Fish: Caliban's Sea-changes and the Problems of Classification
James Seth (Central Washington University, USA)
6. Monster of Vacancy, Ghost of Culture, Instrument of Clarity: Cultural and Textual Analysis of the Function of the Sonoran Desert as Monster in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway
Mindy Adams (Texas State University, USA)
Part II Transgressive, Monstrous Gender and Corporality
7. Transgressive and Sovereign Authority in the Valois Court
Touba Ghadessi (Wheaton College, USA)
8. "Maybe Something I Never Wanted Will Be Born": Etgar Keret's Monstrous Dream of Motherhood
Elisa Carandina (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France)
Part III Teaching Monstrosity in the (Post-)Modern World
9. Reading Monsters: How Mary Shelley Teaches Incels to Read Paradise Lost
Neil Barrett (The Webb School, USA)
10. "We Live in a Time of Monsters": Teaching Composition through the Representations of Monsters and Monstrosity in Literature
Devon Pizzino (Borough of Manhattan Community College / St. Francis College, USA)
Part IV Monstrosity in World Literature
11. Vamping It Up: Identity Performance and Intoxicated Bloodlust in the Poetry of Eduardo Haro Ibars
Alyssa Holan (University of Wisconsin, Platteville, USA)
12. The Edges of the World in Classical Greece and Epic India: A Comparison of the Monstrous Races of Ctesias's Indica and the Raksasas of Valmiki's Ramayana
Albert Watanabe (Louisiana State University, USA)
13. Satire and Monstrosity in African Diasporic Drama
Subbah Mir (Louisiana State University, USA)
14. How a Monster Became a Hero: An Understanding of Camusian Morality through the Absurdist Hero, Don Juan
Scott Truesdale (University of Georgia, USA)
Index
