Creating Humanity, Discovering Monstrosity: Myths & Metaphors of Enduring Evil
edited by Elizabeth Nelson with Jillian Burcar and Hannah Priest
ISBN: 978-1-904710-95-0
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Contents
Introduction
Elizabeth Nelson
Section 1 Yesterday’s Monster’s Impact on Today
Witiko Possession & Starvation Cannibalism among the James Bay Cree: Monstrosity or Madness?
Cecil Chabot
Monstrous Murderers: Historical Execution Narratives
Shilinka Smith and Shona Hill
Beyond Frankenstein: Science Fiction and Biotechnology
Nubia Bento Rodrigues
Monstrosity in 17th Century German Theosophy: The Case of Jacob Boehme
Filips Defoort
Features of the Monsters in Adriaen Coenen’s 16th Century Manuscripts Visboec and Walvisboec: A Local History of Unthought
Piet Swanepoel
Exhuming Monsters: Historical Archaeology and the Monstrous
C. Riley Augé
Section 2: Women Gone Monstrous
Flowing Subjectivities: Vampires, Femininity and Jouissance
Anna Chromik-Krzykawska
Fragmented Fetishes: Monstrosity and Desire in Women’s Contemporary Time-Based Art
Jenny Keane
Sphinxes, Witches and Little Girls: Reconsidering the Monster in the Art of Leonooor Fini
Rachel Grew
Monstrous Mother or Victim? The Figure of La Llorona
Cristina Santos
An Investigation into Development of the Traditional Japanese Female Vengeance Ghost from Ancient Myth to Modern Day Cinema Production
Emma Newbery
Section 3: (In)Human Monsters – Monstrous (In)Humanity
Am I the Monster or Are You?
Tamara El-Hoss
Masked Monster: Argentinean Reality under Dictatorship
Adriana Spahr
Who are the Real Barbarians at the Gate? The Sensationalism of the Mexican Narco
Tracy Crowe-Morey
Monster or Messiah? Tortured Werewolf and Forgiving Stock
Michelle Aslett
Sympathising with a Monster: An Exploration of the Abject Human Monster in Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory
Alexis de Coning
‘In me More than Myself’: The Monstrous as a Site of Fear and Desire in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and The Erl-King
Ana María Losada Pérez
Monster or Clown, Bad or Crazy: Who can Tell the Difference?
Chris Richardson
Section 4: Victorian Monstrosities
Beautiful Monsters: Cosmeticised Women in the Late Victorian Period
Ji Won Chung
Triggering Time’s Trapdoor
Keira McKenzie
Monsters, Morality and Religion
Helen Sutherland
Section 5: How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Monstrous Desire: Love, Death and the Vampire Marriage
Elizabeth Nelson
Fairy Lovers and the Threat of Permanence
Hannah Priest
‘Would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?’: Abstinence and Impotence of Male Vampires in Contemporary Fiction and Television
Carys Crossen
Twilight and the Half-Dead Infant Monster
Cindy Smith
Section 6: Monsters around the World
The Enormous Crocodile: The Horrific Hope of a Walking Handbag
Amena S. Hassan
The Enduring Battle of Good vs. Evil in Comic Books
Marianna Missiou
The Socio-Cultural Role of the Monster Image in Ndorobo Folklore
Shelley Ashdown
Caliban’s Eternal Return: Crazy Moncada in the Shadows of J. M. Arguedas’s Peruvian Inferno
Lucas Izquierdo
A Different Monstrosity: A Case Study on Journey to the West
Yee Man Lam
The Monstrous Madness of Koert Spies in Eben Vintner’s Horrelpoot
Isle Carla Groenewald
Re-viewing the Ogre and the Possibility of Reconciliation in The Inheritors by William Golding
Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı
Section 7: Media and the Monstrous
Pale Skinned Primate: Constructions of the Human and the Monstrous in Images on and about Jane Goodall
Laura K. Davis
Monstrous Newspapers: The Actual German Struggle with the Printed Heritage of the Third Reich
Peter Mario Kreuter
Mediating the Monstrous: The Nethari Case and Aarushi-Hemraj Murder Case
Sannam Khanna & Susan Thomas
The (Not-So) Scary Monster: The Crisis Rhetoric of the WHO and the American CDC
Marlin Bates, IV
Section 8: Lights! Camera! Action!
Atomic Age Monsters: Radioactivity and Horror during the Early Cold War
John Donovan
Death is Only the Beginning: George A. Romero’s Model of the Zombie and Its Threat to Identity
Kevan A. Feshami
Living Appendages of the Machine: Reproducing Sex and Gender in Cyborg and Zombie Narratives, from Battlestar Galactica to The Walking Dead
Jillian Burcar
(Disciplining) The Savage Inside: Sexuality and Monstrosity in For Love Alone
Ann-Marie Cook
Freddy’s Glove: Symbolising the Monster in the Nightmare on Elm Street Series
Liz Dixon
Monsters and Monstrous Acts: Exploring the Shadow Archetype in Batman: The Dark Knight
Zelda G. Knight
The Aesthetic Simulation of Murder in Dexterland
Lee Baxter
Coffee, Tea or Monster? The Monster in Classic and Contemporary Warner Bros. Animation
Tiffany L. Knoell
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