{"product_id":"monstrosity-performance-and-race-in-contemporary-culture-9781433127373","title":"Monstrosity Performance and Race in Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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of women of color in the academy, the media framing of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes, the use of monstrosity in unpublished work from the Gloria Anzaldúa archives, post-feminist discourses in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lords of Salem\u003c\/i\u003e, and Kanye West's strategic employment of ideologies of monstrosity, this book offers new ways to think about Otherness in this contemporary moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«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.» \u003cbr\u003e (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, \u003cbr\u003e Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)\u003cbr\u003e«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.» \u003cbr\u003e (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, \u003cbr\u003e Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy – James Holmes and the Monstrosity of Whiteness – Chicana Feminist Legacies of Monstrosity in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive – \u003ci\u003eAmerican Mary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lords of Salem\u003c\/i\u003e: Post-Feminist Nightmares – From College Dropout to Monster: Kanye West and the Politics of Monstrosity – Monstrous Endings.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039575900503,"sku":"9781433127373","price":30.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433127373.jpg?v=1750944143","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/monstrosity-performance-and-race-in-contemporary-culture-9781433127373","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}