Creolizing Frankenstein dissects and critically appreciates Mary Shelley's 200-year old novel. Contributors advance two claims: first, this story is the product of creolization-the intentional conglomeration of a variety of scientific, mythological, political, religious, gender, educational, historical, and racial discourses. Second, we trace the ways in which Frankenstein has creolized itself into modern and contemporary life and culture in such a way as to have become a new mythology and political statement for each generation. Authors in this volume place Frankenstein into productive conversation with such figures and fields as Frederick Douglass and slave narrative, Frantz Fanon and postcolonial theory, Afro-Caribbean Hispanophone and Francophone literature, nineteenth century labor history, the Black Radical Tradition, Trans studies, feminist theory, Marxism and critical social theory, film studies, music and media studies, Afro-futurism and African futurism, political theory, education theory, Gothic literary studies, and Africana philosophy.
Michael R. Paradiso-Michau is lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Editor of Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political , Paradiso-Michau has published in Continental Philosophy Review; Ethics; Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture; Journal of Scriptural Reasoning; Atlantic Journal of Communication; Radical Philosophy Review; and Shofar. He has also contributed chapters to Listening to Edith Stein: Wisdom for a New Century , Neither Victim Nor Survivor: Thinking toward a New Humanity, and Shifting the Geography of Reason: Gender, Science, and Religion .
Acknowledgments Introduction: One Woman's Text and a Critique of Colonialism Michael R. Paradiso-Michau Part I: Race, Gender, and Media Chapter 1. Black Frankenstein at 200 Elizabeth Young Chapter 2. Gender, Race, and Frankenstein's Creature: A Creolized Reading and Decolonial Challenges Lewis R. Gordon Chapter 3. The Creation of Identity in Frankenstein and Man Into Woman Emily Datskou Chapter 4. Revolutionary Responsibility: Mothering a Monster Jane Anna Gordon and Elizabeth Jennerwein Chapter 5. The Subaltern Brides of Frankenstein: Liberating Shelley's Unrealized Female Creature on Screen Kyle William Bishop Chapter 6. Creolization between Horror and Science Fiction: Get Out and the Era of a Third Reconstruction Jasmine Noelle Yarish Chapter 7. Funking with Victor: Toward a Genealogy of Revolutionary Desire Paul Youngquist Part II: Politics and History Chapter 8. "You Call These Men a Mob": Irish Rebels, Slave Insurrectionists, Luddite Martyrs, and the Monstrous Rebirth of the Wretched of the Earth David McNally Chapter 9. Frankenstein and Slave rrative: Race, Revulsion, and Radical Revolution Alan M. S. J. Coffee Chapter 10. "I have undertaken this vengeance": Echoes of Race and Specters of Slave Revolt Raphael Hoermann Chapter 11. The Creature's Creole Education Amy B. Shuffelton Chapter 12. Hideous Aspects: Decolonial Barbarism and the Epistemic Politics of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Garrett FitzGerald Part III: Literature, Theory, and Culture Chapter 13. Galvanic Awakenings: Frankenstein in the Spanish Caribbean Persephone Braham Chapter 14. Monstrous Hybridity: Transformative Readings in Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? Lindsey Leigh Smith Chapter 15. Victor Frankenstein and the Crisis of European Man Thomas Meagher Chapter 16. "Thinking that liberates itself from the anatamo-critical": Some Notes on Frankenstein, Fanon, and the Combinatory Prometheus Jeremy Matthew Glick Chapter 17. Misinterpellated Monsters Corey McCall and Borna Radnik Index About the Contributors
This book has reanimated the Frankenstein monster as a timely metaphor for creolization in the wake of Black Lives Matter and the global momentum to decolonize the curriculum. Michael R. Paradiso-Michau has skillfully stitched together this edited collection to mark the hybridity of Mary Shelley's creation-now reborn to speak for a new generation. -- Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England and co-editor of Global Frankenstein
