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Reflections on Monster Metaphors
Monster Blog Reflection
The primary questions of this course, from what I can tell, have been “what is a monster?” and “why are monsters important in telling...
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Dec 9, 20225 min read
Howard Doyle as an Allegory
In reading Mexican Gothic, I was interested in the description of Howard Doyle’s character, and in how that description related to the...
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Dec 4, 20222 min read


Latinx/a Identity in 'Her Body And Other Parties'
A major question about ‘Her Body And Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria Machado that we’ve tried to address in class is the question of...
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Nov 17, 20223 min read
Resignation to the Reality of Womanhood
What struck me about The Husband Stitch, the opening story of Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado was the apparent lack of...
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Nov 13, 20224 min read
Monsters & Christian Myth Across Borders
From Dusk Till Dawn utilizes three major genres: the Western genre, which takes place in the American southwest and in Mexico, the...
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Nov 6, 20225 min read
The Murderer's Mother: Arlene's Identity & Self Perception
On Tuesday in class we discussed the significance of Arlene’s perspective towards the end of the book; questions of why her chapter was...
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Oct 28, 20224 min read


8th Thesis: The Cultural Body As The Monster
In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s essay Monster Culture (Seven Theses) he lays out how the genre of monster fiction—or horror—has historically...
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Oct 19, 20225 min read
Unreliable Narration & Loss
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau focuses—as the title would suggest—on the idea of missing or conflicting information. The timeline of the...
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Oct 7, 20224 min read
Sex & Women’s Bodies: Misogyny in Oscar Wao
While reading this novel, I’ve been really preoccupied—as the narrator is, as well—with the depiction of sex and bodies, and how those...
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Sep 29, 20225 min read
Fuku Takes on a Monstrous Form in the First Half of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'
The concept of “fuku” as a monster takes the knowledge of monsters that we’ve consumed through Cohen and Halberstam’s writings and makes...
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Sep 25, 20222 min read
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