Subjects barbarian, monstrous, and wild : : Encounters in the arts and contemporary politics / / Maria Boletsi, Tyler Sage.
Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild responds to a contemporary political climate in which historically invested figures of otherness—barbarians, savages, monsters—have become common discursive currency. Through questionable historical comparisons, politicians and journalists evoke barbaric or pr...
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| Superior document: | Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race ; 32 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viiil, 261 pages). |
| Notes: | Based on a graduate symposium held in Leiden, June 20, 2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild / Maria Boletsi and Tyler Sage
- Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions in Contemporary Politics and Culture
- Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics / Maria Boletsi
- The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares / Tyler Sage
- From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates—An Exploration of ‘Black Subjectivity’ in Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly / Siebe Bluijs
- Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation Conundrum / Cansu Soyupak
- 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 / Giulia Champion
- Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The Revenant / Cui Chen
- Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein / Andries Hiskes
- The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love Dick / Ruby de Vos
- Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians, Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust
- Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea and RuPaul’s Drag Race / Mareen Will
- Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney’s Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells / Tom Curran
- “To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery”: Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in ‘Playful’ Holocaust Representation / Sophie van den Bergh.