Category Archives: uncanny

CFA: Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out

August 13th, 2017 | Posted in animals, horror, uncanny

The boundary between the animal and the human has long been unstable, especially since the Victorian period. Where the boundary is drawn between human and animal is itself an expression of political power and dominance, and the ‘animal’ can at once express the deepest fears and greatest aspirations of a society’ (Victorian Animal Dreams, 4). […]

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The Uncanny, Monstrous, and Genocide

December 4th, 2016 | Posted in genocide, monsters, monstrous, uncanny

I work as a scholar in two major areas, and the monstrous is at the center of both. These two areas came together in some of my recent research in genocide. Not long ago I finished the great book Less Than Human by David Livingstone Smith, that explores the process of dehumanization and how viewing […]

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