Creolizing Frankenstein

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.

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 .

Jane Anna Gordon is Professor of Political Science and Social and Critical Inquiry (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) at the University of Connecticut, USA. She is author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement, Creolizing Political Theory, and Why They Couldn't Wait, co-author of Of Divine Warning, and, most recently, co-editor of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg and The Politics of Richard Wright. President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) from 2014-2017, Gordon continues to direct the CPA Summer School and to co-edit the organization's two book series, Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Studies. With Lewis R. Gordon, she is Executive Editor of the open access journal, Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Neil Roberts is John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy professor of Africana studies, political theory, and the philosophy of religion at Williams College, where he also serves as associate dean of the faculty. He has published widely on modern and contemporary political theory, politics in literature, and theories of freedom. His books include Freedom as Marronage and A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass. How to Live Free in an Age of Pessimism is his next monograph.