Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture

By Bernadette Marie Calafell

Book Overview

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of women of color in the academy, the media framing of alleged Aurora shooter James Holmes, the use of monstrosity in unpublished work from the Gloria Anzald a archives, post-feminist discourses and Kanye West's strategic employment of ideologies of monstrosity, this book offers new ways to think about Otherness in this contemporary moment.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433127377
• ISBN13: 9781433127373
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.8"