Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Teratologies -- Troubling Genealogies: Monstrous Textuality and Narratives of Resistance in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Part I: What Moves at the Margin -- Introduction -- 1 Hauntologies -- 2 Haunted Narratives -- 3 Monstrous Narratives -- Conclusion -- Part II: A Female Monster Larger Than Life -- Introduction -- 4 Reframing Narratives -- 5 Corporeal Discourses -- 6 'A Female Monster Larger than Life': Fatness and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Part III: Hideous Progeny -- Introduction and 7 Posthuman Reading Practices -- 8 Posthuman Writing Practices -- 9 Posthuman Bodies in/as Narrative -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: 'The Promises of Monsters' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.
