Monsters and Monstrosity - Bog

Every culture has its own monsters, creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge basic notions of self and identity within a given cultural paradigm. This book examines the concept of monstrosity from a number of different perspectives: from monstrosity as a Roman legal violation and experiments in nineteenth-century fiction to modern ideas of monstrosity, linked to trauma, androgyny, postcolonial perspectives, AI and cyborgs.