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Diamela Elite's community idea is a political position that conjugates art and life that proposes a direct dialogue with Jean-Luc Nancy's concept of literary communism. It is a practice of articulating diverse plural voices from a common space that limits with the opening towards the other, forming an act of communication that involves "the communist interruption of the class domain, of social stratifications and of power, it is proposed to write in its expanded character," that is, different types of graphic inscriptions, somatographic and performative in general.

Monstrosity in literature.

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Monsters have always rampant border crossers, from Dracula's journey from Romania to Whitby, to the rampaging monsters of Godzilla movies across global cities. This volume studies how their transnationality reflects an era of global crisis. Monstrosity has long been explored in a number of ways that connect gender, sexuality, class, race, nationality and other forms of otherness with depictions of monsters or monstrosity. This book, however, explores cultural flow as it relates to the construction of a transnational genre, by both producers and audiences. It also examines the ramifications of representations of monstrosity in socio-political terms as they relate to a tumultuous era of global crises. This era has of course been amplified and altered by the Covid pandemic, which frames much of the content of this collection. This ongoing crisis imbues the discourses of monstrosity, global catastrophe and societal and human vulnerability with its significant expression in artistic terms.

Monstrosity in literature.

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Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation, composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in- or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social norms and values. The monster-evoking transgression is most often indistinguishable from reactions to the experience of otherness, merging the limits of humanity with the limits of a given culture. The topic entails a large intersection among the cultural domains of law, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and technology. Monstrosity has indeed become a necessary condition of our existence in the 21st century: it serves as a representation of change itself. In the process of analysis there are three theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, representational, ontological. The volume therefore aims at examining the concept of monstrosity from three main perspectives: technophobic, xenophobic, superdiversity. Today's globalized world is shaped in the unprecedented phenomenon of international migration. The resistance to this phenomenon causes the demonization of the Other, seen as the antagonist and the monster. The monster becomes therefore the ethnic Other, the alien. To reach this new perspective on monstrosity we must start by examining the many facets of monstrosity, also diachronically: from the philological origin of the term to the Roman and classical viewpoint, from the Renaissance medical perspective to the religious background, from the new filmic exploitations in the 20th and 21st centuries to the very recent ethnological and anthropological points of view, to the latest technological perspective , dealing with artificial intelligence.

Monsters in literature. --- Monsters --- Social aspects. --- Monstrosity. --- artificial intelligence. --- law and literature. --- migration.

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El volumen ofrece una panorámica de las figuraciones del monstruo insólito en la narrativa de escritoras contemporáneas hispánicas, quienes renuevan este motivo desde ángulos sugerentes que van de lo fantástico a la ciencia ficción prospectiva, pasando por el terror sobrenatural y lo inusual. Los estudios combinan la dimensión teórica con abordajes de carácter crítico y comparatista, integrando la lectura de género, la dimensión ideológica y otras cuestiones transversales como la ecología, la política, la economía o la biotecnología. Se demuestra que la poética actual de autoría femenina reivindica la monstruosidad no realista como resorte idóneo para cuestionar el orden hegemónico y tematizar un conjunto de problemáticas posmodernas que recalcan la fragilidad del mundo y del individuo.

Monstrosity in literature. --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Female monsters in literature. --- Spanish fiction --- Spanish American fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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"The study examines the parallel emergence of a new paradigm of deviation in literature and science. From Hoffmann and Poe to Henry James, from medical teratology and early psychiatry to the theory of evolution, the book traces the development of a modern dialectic of the defiguration and refiguration of monstrous forms."--

Literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Monstrosity. --- deformation. --- deviation.