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[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Transnational Monsters Edited Volume

Tue Sep 20 23:43:36 GMT 2022




Transnational Monsters: Reframing Monstrosity and Global Crisis
Monstrosity has long been explored in a number of ways that connect gender, sexuality, class, race, nationality and other forms of otherness with depictions of monsters or monstrosity (Wood, Williams, Halberstam, Clover, Benshoff). While the collection explores cultural flow as it relates to the construction of a transnational genre, by both producers and by audiences, it also explores the ramifications of representations of monstrosity in socio-political terms as they relate to a tumultuous era of global crises. This era has of course been amplified and altered by the Covid pandemic, which frames the content of this collection. This ongoing crisis imbues the discourses of monstrosity, global catastrophe and societal and human vulnerability with significant expression in artistic terms.   The authors in this book engage with the most contemporary period of Earth’s existence in which human activity has begun, markedly, to have affected the climate and ecological status of the planet. We are now in a novel period in time which is characterised by humankind’s dominance of ecological systems and many of the texts addressed within this book engage with the outcomes thereof, or as Keith Moser has characterised it in The Metaphor of the Monster: Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature, the ‘disquieting ecological anxiety related to the dawn of the Anthropocene’ (2020: 63).  The collection therefore explores the ways in which monsters metaphorically represent forms of social and political otherness as they relate to cross-cultural or transnational forms, either directly or indirectly. The examination of the figure of the monster from a transnational perspective offers the opportunity to better understand issues of cultural production and influence, the relationship between national cultures and transnational formations, hierarchies of cultural production, the ethics of transnationalism, as well as the possibility to explore how shifting cultural and political boundaries have been represented through tropes of monstrosity. We are seeking several chapters from any aspect of screen studies, to complete our edited volume which is already under contract with Cambridge Scholars Press.
We are looking, in addition to broader proposals, for work which addresses:


Covid/Viral Horrors
Ancient Monsters
Gyno-Horror
Cross-border appropriations of traditional monsters
Reflections of monstrosity that metaphorise contemporary global crises (socio-economic, mental health, migration, climate, etc.)

Please include a 300-word abstract and a 100-word author bio and send it to both (s.rawle /at/ yorksj.ac.uk) and (m.hall /at/ yorksj.ac.uk) The deadline for proposals is 17th October 2022, with draft chapters due 1st June 2023.

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