Author:
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976-
Imprint:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
Descriptionxxxix, 558 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Monstrous Caribbean / Persephone Braham -- The unlucky, the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Surekha Davies -- Beautious beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa / Henry John Drewal -- Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in ancient Greece and Rome / D. Felton -- Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters / Michael Dylan Foster -- On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition / Francesca Leoni -- Human of the heart: pitiful Oni in mediebal Japan / Michelle Osterfeld Li -- The Maya "cosmic monster" as a political and religious symbol / Matthew Looper -- Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation / Karin Myhre -- From hideous to Hedonist: the changing face of the nineteenth-century monster / Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson -- Centaurs, satyrs, and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human / Karl Steel -- Invisible monsters: vision, horror, and contemporary culture / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock -- Posthuman teratology / Patricia MacCormack -- Monstrous sexuality: variations on the Vagina Dentata / Sarah Alison Miller -- Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter / Partha Mitter, with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle -- Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity / Dana Oswald -- Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages / Debra Higgs Strickland -- Hic sun dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters / Chet Van Duzer -- Monsters and the twenty-first century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus / Peter J. Dendle -- The promis of monsters / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-530) and index.
