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[Commlist] New book: The Monster Theory Reader

Thu Jul 23 16:17:10 GMT 2020





/The Monster Theory Reader/ from the University of Minnesota Press is now available in paperback and e-book forms for classes and individual researchers. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-monster-theory-reader

The table of contents is as follows:

Introduction: A Genealogy of Monster Theory

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock


1. Monster Culture (Seven Theses)

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen


Part I. The Monster Theory Toolbox


2. The Uncanny
Sigmund Freud


3. The Uncanny Valley
Masahiro Mori


4. Approaching Abjection
Julia Kristeva


5. An Introduction to the American Horror Film
Robin Wood


6. Fantastic Biologies and the Structures of Horrific Imagery
Noël Carroll


7. Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity
Jack Halberstam


Part II. Monsterizing Difference


8. Monstrous Strangers at the Edge of the World: The Monstrous Races

Alexa Wright


9. Blood, Jews, and Monsters in Medieval Culture

Bettina Bildhauer


10. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection

Barbara Creed


11. The Monster and the Homosexual
Harry Benshoff


12. The Undead: A Haunted Whiteness

Annalee Newitz


13. Intolerable Ambiguity: Freak as/at the Limit

Elizabeth Grosz


Part III. Monsters and Culture


14. Monsters and the Moral Imagination

Stephen T. Asma


15. Introduction to /Religion and Its Monsters/

//Timothy Beal


16. The Self’s Clean and Proper Body

Margrit Shildrick


17. Haunting Modernity: /Tanuki,/ Trains, and Transformation in Japan//
Michael Dylan Foster

18. Invisible Monsters: Vision, Horror, and Contemporary Culture

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock


19. Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots

Jasbir K. Puar and Amit S. Rai


20. Zombie Trouble: Zombie Texts, Bare Life, and Displaced People

Jon Stratton


Part IV. The Promises of Monsters


21. Beasts from the Deep

Erin Suzuki


22. Of Swamp Dragons: Mud, Megalopolis, and a Future for Ecocriticism

Anthony Lioi


23. The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others

Donna Haraway


24. Posthuman Teratology

Patricia MacCormack


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