Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture

Bernadette Marie Calafell

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English

Peter Lang Publishing Inc
22 October 2015

Journalistic style guides; Communication studies; Cultural studies; Gender studies: women

In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized groups appropriate monstrosity as a means of resistance, as well as on how we can understand oppression and privilege through monstrosity, this book offers another way to conceptualize the politics of representation. Through critical analyses of experiences of women of color in the academy, the media framing of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes, the use of monstrosity in unpublished work from the Gloria Anzaldúa archives, post-feminist discourses in American Mary and The Lords of Salem, and Kanye West’s strategic employment of ideologies of monstrosity, this book offers new ways to think about Otherness in this contemporary moment.

By: Bernadette Marie Calafell
Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9781433127380
ISBN 10: 1433127385
Pages: 139
Publication Date: 22 October 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Monstrous Femininity: Constructions of Women of Color in the Academy – James Holmes and the Monstrosity of Whiteness – Chicana Feminist Legacies of Monstrosity in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive – American Mary and The Lords of Salem: Post-Feminist Nightmares – From College Dropout to Monster: Kanye West and the Politics of Monstrosity – Monstrous Endings.

Bernadette Marie Calafell (PhD, University of North Carolina) is Full Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Denver. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (Peter Lang, 2007) and co-editor (with Michelle A. Holling) of Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? (2011).

Reviews for Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture

This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture. (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University) This book represents truly outstanding and groundbreaking scholarship. By interweaving popular culture with her lived experiences, Bernadette Marie Calafell has added an important new dimension to our thinking about monsters and culture. (Kendall R. Phillips, Professor and Associate Dean, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University)