Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild : : Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics.

• Superior document: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series ; v.32
• Author: Boletsi, Maria.
• TeilnehmendeR: Sage, Tyler.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)

In a contemporary political climate where barbarians, monsters, and savages have become ubiquitous figures of otherness, Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild gathers essays which explore both the oppressive, dispossessing functions and subversive potentials of these figures in and through art and literature.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Subjects Barbarian,Monstrous, and Wild -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild -- Setting the Terms -- Outline of Contents -- Works Cited -- Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions inContemporary Politics and Culture -- Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics -- Abstract -- Barbarian Invasions: An Enlightenment Trope -- Barbarians and the Discourse of Culturalization Since 1989 -- Barbarian, Savage, Monster: The War on Terror as a War of Words -- Barbarism in Post-Truth Politics: Trump the Barbarian -- Systemic Barbarians and Linguistic Disobedience -- Works Cited -- The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares -- Abstract -- A Persistent and Politicized Story -- Narrative as Schemata -- Arcand's Invasions -- Conclusions and Complications -- Coda: Art, Critique, and the Current Moment -- Works Cited -- From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates-An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly -- Abstract -- We Gon' Be Alright -- Black As the Moon -- Hood Politics -- Works Cited -- Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation ­Conundrum -- Abstract -- The 13th Istanbul Biennale -- The Barbarian Language of Protest -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished:Canons Recast in Literature and Film -- Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary Canon -- Abstract -- The Establishment of the Barbarian in the Hellenic World and Greek Tragedy -- The Figuration of the Wild Man in Medieval Romances -- The Renaissance and the Emergence of the Cannibal.

Rewriting the Occidental Literary Canon: Shakespeare and Césaire's Tempests -- Works Cited -- Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The Revenant -- Abstract -- The Logic of Coloniality and Its Undoing -- Decolonial Moments -- The Savage's Haunting -- To Live with Ghosts -- Works Cited -- Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Abstract -- Formal Issues: The Relationship Between Genius and Monstrosity -- Ontological Difficulties and Posthuman Perspectives -- Works Cited -- The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love Dick -- Abstract -- Monsters and Artists -- The Monster as a Stigma: Dept. of Speculation and The Blazing World -- The Monster that Liberates: I Love Dick -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians,Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust -- Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag Race -- Abstract -- Glamazon -- Disidentifications and Amazonian Kinship -- Limitations of the Body -- Rituals and Formalization -- Rewriting Herstory -- Works Cited -- Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells -- Abstract -- The Barbarous and the Barbaric -- Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- "To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery": Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in 'Playful' Holocaust Representation -- Abstract -- The Barbarian -- Holocaust and Play -- Kamp -- Re-mediation in Kamp -- Distance vs. Proximity in Kamp -- Seriousness vs. Playfulness in Kamp -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.