Monstrous Textualities: Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance Heise-Von Der Lippe Anya
Monstrous Textualities: Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance Heise-Von Der Lippe Anya A literary study on Gothic narratives of resistance that brings together a range of critical…
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Monstrous Textualities: Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance Heise-Von Der Lippe Anya
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. 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. This book traces the representation of the other through Black feminist hauntology in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love.
The result is a comprehensive argument Finally, it reads Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl within a framework of critical posthumanist and cyborg theory.