Overview

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, they 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. The contributors to this book 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. Contributors: Kyle William Bishop, Persephone Braham, Alan M. S. J. Co?ee, Emily Datskou,Garrett FitzGerald, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Jane Anna Gordon, Lewis R. Gordon, Raphael Hoermann, Elizabeth Jennerwein, Corey McCall, David McNally, Thomas Meagher, Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, Borna Radnik, Lindsey Smith, Amy Shu?elton, Jasmine Noelle Yarish, Elizabeth Young, Paul Youngquist.

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Author:   Michael R. Paradiso-Michau
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
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9781538176542

ISBN 10:   1538176548
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   25 June 2026
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

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 <i>Global Frankenstein</i> Creolizing Frankenstein is a rich and varied text, one that examines Mary Shelley’s novel from any number of interesting perspectives. The scholarship gathered here by editor Michael R. Paradiso-Michau proved engaging and insightful and simply fun to read. A great text for anyone who hopes to engage with Frankenstein and its enduring value, its ability to speak to culture, no matter the age in which it is read. -- Victor LaValle, author of <i>The Changeling</i> One of the main strengths of the collection is that its contributors come from various disciplines and career stages, many of the most inventive essays are by younger scholars. It is a volume true to its word, employing a range of creolized devices to proliferate new readings of a canonical novel. A key to its originality is that it explores of how Frankenstein, and Frankenstein, continue to resonate and be re-interpreted through the present. It thus constitutes a welcome expansion of ongoing debates about the novel into Caribbean Studies and other new territory. * Review 19 *

Author Information

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 .

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