Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives

Download or read book Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives written by A. Ng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.