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Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture

Bernadette Marie Calafell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:30th Sep '15

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In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized groups appropriate monstrosity as a means of resistance, as well as on how we can understand oppression and privilege through monstrosity, this book offers another way to conceptualize the politics of representation. Through critical analyses of experiences of women of color in the academy, the media framing of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes, the use of monstrosity in unpublished work from the Gloria Anzaldúa archives, post-feminist discourses in American Mary and The Lords of Salem, and Kanye West’s strategic employment of ideologies of monstrosity, this book offers new ways to think about Otherness in this contemporary moment.

«This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture.»
(Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean,
Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)
«This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture.»
(Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean,
Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)

ISBN: 9781433127373

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 220g

139 pages