Monstrous spaces : the other frontier / edited by Niculae Liviu Gheran, Ken Monteith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gheran, Niculae Liviu, editor.

Monteith, Ken, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

The book is a collection of essays presented during the First Global Conference of Monstrous Geography held at Manchester College, Oxford, and examines monstrous geographies, or the other frontier, a space that runs counter to the socially constructed space of culture.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Niculae Liviu Gheran and Ken Monteith

From Haven to Hell: How the Earth Went Bad in Recent Adaptations of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1898) / Simon Bacon

Decriminalising the Lawless Moor / Zea Miller

Fracturing the Monstrous Geography of George Orwell’s 1984 and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We: Sexuality, Dissidence and Individualism / Niculae Liviu Gheran

Monstrous Breeding Grounds: Creation, Isolation and Suffering at Noble’s Island, Hailsham and Rankstadt / Evelyn Tsitas

The Text, the Void and the Vortex: Turbulent Topologies in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves / Moritz Ingwersen

Zombies in the Colonies: Imperialism and Contestation of Ethno-Political Space in Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide / Robert A. Saunders

Specter of Surveillance: The Monstrous Border between Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas / Ken Monteith

Morgues, Museums and the Ghost of Errol Flynn / Erin Ashenhurst

Soulless Cities: The Postmodern Metropolis and the Horror of Absence / Oliver Golembowski

Rethinking Brutalist Buildings: Their Soul is in Their Making / Olivia Muñoz-Rojas , Christine Wall and Linda Clarke

‘To Uncreation Sunk’: Monstered Spaces in the Works of the War Poets / Sarah Montin

‘Pictures in a Rebus’: Puzzling out W. G. Sebald’s Monstrous Geographies / Anna MacDonald

Imagining the Yellow Peril: A Topography of Racial Evil in London’s Limehouse / Viv Chadder

Images of Post-Quake Japan or How to Stop Bara-Bara / Yutaka Sho

Terror Nullius: A Possessed Landscape / Thea Costantino

Crooked Stilts and Blood-Soaked Bluestones: Unearthing Australia’s Troubled Settlement / Samuel Finegan

Enchanted Microcosm or Apocalyptic Warzone? Human Projections into Bug World / Petra Rehling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-176-2

OCLC:

1096221305

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881761 DOI