Interdisciplinary essays on monsters and the monstrous : imagining monsters to understand our socio-political and psycho-emotional realities

• Other Authors: Schotanus, M. Susanne, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
• Series: Emerald interdisciplinary connexions
• Subjects: Monsters in popular culture.; Monsters > Symbolic aspects.; Monsters > Social aspects.; Social Science > Sociology > General.; Sociology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781801170291
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages).

Monsters show us our deepest fears and anxieties, our discomfort with difference, and our simultaneous repulsion with and fascination for the other. Understanding that the concept of the monster can be a political tool used to dehumanize opponents and a psychological tool that can help us reconsider...