Contents:
Foreword, John Block Friedman;
Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies, Asa Simon Mittman;
Part I History of Monstrosity:
1. The monstrous Caribbean, Persephone Braham;
2. The unlucky, the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Surekha Davies;
3. Beauteous beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa, Henry John Drewal;
4. Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome, D. Felton;
5. Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters, Michael Dylan Foster;
6. On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition, Francesca Leoni;
7. Human of the heart: pitiful oni in medieval Japan, Michelle Osterfield Li;
8. The Maya 'cosmic monster' as a political and religious symbol, Matthew Looper;
9. Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation, Karin Myhre;
10. From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the 19th-century monster, Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson;
11. Centaurs, satyrs, and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human, Karl Steel;
12. Invisible monsters: vision, horror, and contemporary culture, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.
Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity:
13. Posthuman teratology, Patricia MacCormack;
14. Monstrous sexuality: variations on the vagina dentata, Sarah Alison Miller;
15. Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter, Partha Mitter with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle;
16. Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity, Dana Oswald;
17. Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages, Debra Higgs Strickland;
18. 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.
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