The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous

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Contents: Foreword, John Block Friedman Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies, Asa Simon Mittman Part I History of Monstrosity: The monstrous Caribbean, Persephone Braham The unlucky, the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Surekha Davies Beauteous 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 medieval Japan, Michelle Osterfield 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 19th-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. Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity: 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 sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters, Chet van Duzer Conclusion: monsters in the 21st century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus, Peter J. Dendle Postscript: the promise of monsters, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Bibliography Index.