Monstrous Encounters: Feminist Theory and the Monstrous
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Henriksen, L., Bülow, M. H., & Kvistad, E. (2017). Monstrous Encounters: Feminist Theory and the Monstrous. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 26(2-3), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v26i2-3.100801Sammendrag
Nothing is closer to home than the monster: you first encounter it as a child, under the bed or in the closet. (Or, in one intense childhood memory from 1980s Norway, in the toilet; the murky depths of outhouses were said to harbour dodraugen, an undead, watery being with inexplicable tastes in habitat.) Maybe this is why the study of monsters tends to have a faint hanging-on sense of the frivolous and unacademic: by being interested in monsters we are in some ways going back to (regressing to?) our roots. In all their strangeness, monsters are always leading us home.