Creolizing Frankenstein

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781538176559
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism
• Index: History

Creolizing 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, they 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. The contributors to this book 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.
Contributors: Kyle William Bishop, Persephone Braham, Alan M. S. J. Co?ee, Emily Datskou,Garrett FitzGerald, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon, Raphael Hoermann, Elizabeth Jennerwein, Corey McCall, David McNally, Thomas Meagher, Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, Borna Radnik, Lindsey Smith, Amy Shu?elton, Jasmine Noelle Yarish, Elizabeth Young, Paul Youngquist.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: One Woman’s Text and a Critique of Colonialism
• Part I: Race, Gender, and Media
• Chapter One: Black Frankenstein at the Bicentennial
• Chapter Two: Gender, Race, and Frankenstein’s Creature: A Creolized Reading and Decolonial Challenges
• Chapter Three: The Creation of Identity in Frankenstein and Man into Woman
• Chapter Four: Revolutionary Responsibility: Mothering a Monster
• Chapter Five: The Subaltern Brides of Frankenstein: Liberating Shelley’s Unrealized Female Creature on Screen
• Chapter Six: Creolization between Horror and Science Fiction: Get Out and the Era of a Third Reconstruction
• Chapter Seven: Funking with Victor: Toward a Genealogy of Revolutionary Desire
• Part II: Politics and History
• Chapter Eight: “You Call These Men a Mob”: Irish Rebels, Slave Insurrectionists, Luddite Martyrs, and the Monstrous Rebirth of the Wretched of the Earth
• Chapter Nine: Frankenstein and Slave Narrative: Race, Revulsion, and Radical Revolution
• Chapter Ten: “I Have Undertaken This Vengeance”: Echoes of Race and Specters of Slave Revolt in Frankenstein
• Chapter Eleven: The Creature’s Creole Education
• Chapter Twelve: Hideous Aspects: Decolonial Barbarism and the Epistemic Politics of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Part III: Literature, Theory, and Culture
• Chapter Thirteen: Galvanic Awakenings: Frankenstein in the Spanish Caribbean
• Chapter Fourteen: Monstrous Hybridity: Transformative Readings in Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?
• Chapter Fifteen: Victor Frankenstein and the Crisis of European Man
• Chapter Sixteen: “Thinking That Liberates Itself from the Anatomo-Critical”: Some Notes on Frankenstein, Fanon, and the Combinatory Prometheus
• Chapter Seventeen: Misinterpellated Monsters
• About the Contributors