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Book SynopsisCreolizing Frankenstein dissects and critically appreciates Mary Shelley’s 200-year old novel. Contributors advance two claims: first, this story is the product of creolization—the intentional conglomeration of a variety of scientific, mythological, political, religious, gender, educational, historical, and racial discourses. Second, we trace the ways in which Frankenstein has creolized itself into modern and contemporary life and culture in such a way as to have become a new mythology and political statement for each generation. Authors in this volume place Frankenstein into productive conversation with such figures and fields as Frederick Douglass and slave narrative, Frantz Fanon and postcolonial theory, Afro-Caribbean Hispanophone and Francophone literature, nineteenth century labor history, the Black Radical Tradition, Trans studies, feminist theory, Marxism and critical social theory, film studies, music and media studies, Afro-futurism and African futurism, political theory, education theory, Gothic literary studies, and Africana philosophy.
Trade ReviewThis book has reanimated the Frankenstein monster as a timely metaphor for creolization in the wake of Black Lives Matter and the global momentum to decolonize the curriculum. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau has skillfully stitched together this edited collection to mark the hybridity of Mary Shelley’s creation—now reborn to speak for a new generation.
-- Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England and co-editor of
Global FrankensteinTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: One Woman’s Text and a Critique of Colonialism
Michael R. Paradiso-Michau
Part I: Race, Gender, and Media
Chapter 1. Black Frankenstein at 200
Elizabeth Young
Chapter 2. Gender, Race, and Frankenstein’s Creature: A Creolized Reading and Decolonial Challenges
Lewis R. Gordon
Chapter 3. The Creation of Identity in Frankenstein and Man Into Woman
Emily Datskou
Chapter 4. Revolutionary Responsibility: Mothering a Monster
Jane Anna Gordon and Elizabeth Jennerwein
Chapter 5. The Subaltern Brides of Frankenstein: Liberating Shelley’s Unrealized Female Creature on Screen
Kyle William Bishop
Chapter 6. Creolization between Horror and Science Fiction: Get Out and the Era of a Third Reconstruction
Jasmine Noelle Yarish
Chapter 7. Funking with Victor: Toward a Genealogy of Revolutionary Desire
Paul Youngquist
Part II: Politics and History
Chapter 8. “You Call These Men a Mob”: Irish Rebels, Slave Insurrectionists, Luddite Martyrs, and the Monstrous Rebirth of the Wretched of the Earth
David McNally
Chapter 9. Frankenstein and Slave rrative: Race, Revulsion, and Radical Revolution
Alan M. S. J. Coffee
Chapter 10. “I have undertaken this vengeance”: Echoes of Race and Specters of Slave Revolt
Raphael Hoermann
Chapter 11. The Creature’s Creole Education
Amy B. Shuffelton
Chapter 12. Hideous Aspects: Decolonial Barbarism and the Epistemic Politics of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Garrett FitzGerald
Part III: Literature, Theory, and Culture
Chapter 13. Galvanic Awakenings: Frankenstein in the Spanish Caribbean
Persephone Braham
Chapter 14. Monstrous Hybridity: Transformative Readings in Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?
Lindsey Leigh Smith
Chapter 15. Victor Frankenstein and the Crisis of European Man
Thomas Meagher
Chapter 16. “Thinking that liberates itself from the anatamo-critical”: Some Notes on Frankenstein, Fanon, and the Combinatory Prometheus
Jeremy Matthew Glick
Chapter 17. Misinterpellated Monsters
Corey McCall and Borna Radnik
Index
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