A genetic fallacy : monstrous allegories of mixed-race in Gothic and contemporary literature

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dc.contributor.authorSpenrath, Rylan
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorO'Donnell, Daniel Paul
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-24T18:10:31Z
dc.date.available2016-05-24T18:10:31Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractMy thesis examines the similar intersections of hybridity that are embodied in both representations of monstrosity and the politics surrounding people of mixed-race. Drawing from Robert J.C. Young’s text Colonial Desire, I argue that monstrosity and mixed-race present diachronically parallel embodiments of hybridity. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen views monsters as “disturbing hybrids whose externally incoherent bodies resist attempts to include them in any systematic structuration” (loc 226); however, monsters and multiracial people do not inherently disturb category. Gothic representation of monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde confirms that hybridity can be exploited in order to strengthen colonial categories of Self and Other. Postmodern monstrosity in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Octavia Butler’s Imago, complicate ostensibly rigid categories of identity only for the Gothic binary to resurface beneath the masks of superheroes and supervillains.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4487
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0295en_US
dc.proquest.subject0593en_US
dc.proquest.subject0631en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectHybridityen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectColorblinden_US
dc.subjectMixed-Raceen_US
dc.subjectMonsteren_US
dc.subjectMulticulturalismen_US
dc.subjectMonstrousen_US
dc.subjectSuperheroen_US
dc.subjectDragen_US
dc.subjectGothicen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.titleA genetic fallacy : monstrous allegories of mixed-race in Gothic and contemporary literatureen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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