Creolizing Frankenstein

Name: Creolizing Frankenstein
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield
Price: 37.5 EUR
Availability: PreOrder

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau(Editor)

Rowman & Littlefield (Publisher)

Will be published approx. on 25. June 2026

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Paperback/Softback

414 pages

978-1-5381-7654-2 (ISBN)

€37.50incl. 7% vat

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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.

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This 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 <i>Global Frankenstein</i> Creolizing Frankenstein is a rich and varied text, one that examines Mary Shelley's novel from any number of interesting perspectives. The scholarship gathered here by editor Michael R. Paradiso-Michau proved engaging and insightful and simply fun to read. A great text for anyone who hopes to engage with Frankenstein and its enduring value, its ability to speak to culture, no matter the age in which it is read. -- Victor LaValle, author of <i>The Changeling</i> One of the main strengths of the collection is that its contributors come from various disciplines and career stages, many of the most inventive essays are by younger scholars. It is a volume true to its word, employing a range of creolized devices to proliferate new readings of a canonical novel. A key to its originality is that it explores of how Frankenstein, and Frankenstein, continue to resonate and be re-interpreted through the present. It thus constitutes a welcome expansion of ongoing debates about the novel into Caribbean Studies and other new territory. * Review 19 *

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