“What is good for animals is good for men” : animalité et abject dans Found in the Ground de Howard Barker by Eléonore Obis

“…This article analyses the analogies between Howard Barker's theatre of Catastrophe and the abject as defined by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horrors through the study of Found in the Ground, a play where there are many animals on the stage. …”
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From Sensationalism to Sensation: Brian Evenson’s Affecting Texts by Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar

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“Challenging Borders: Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted as a Subversive Disability Memoir” by Pascale Antolin

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A monstrificação dos irlandeses na imaginação geográfica de Giraldus Cambrensis by Raimundo Sousa

“…By assigning the Irish, under the sign of abjection, all sorts of gender anomalies based on the representation of repertoires offered by medieval Teratology, Cambrensis characterized Ireland as a hotbed of monstrous sexualities and thus tries to naturalize colonization as a necessary civilizing process.…”
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‘The Dung-heap and the Flower’: Gissing’s Nether World by Nigel Messenger

“…Using the concept of ‘abjection’ as theorised by Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, the paper goes on to discuss some of the language, social settings and characters of The Nether World, and concludes by suggesting that Gissing’s novel anticipates some aspects of twentieth-century Modernism.…”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Whereas Talbothays still offers a pastoral community, Flintcomb Ash is a cold place of abjection where both the land and the women are ruthlessly exploited. …”
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CYBERPUNK – GAME – POETRY: Rostislav Amelin’s “SimStab” by Daniil Leiderman, Mark Lipovetsky

“…Both the poem, game and their shared text embody spaces of utopia reliant on repressed sites of formless abjection, which paradoxically become a source of anarchic freedom. …”
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Frontières de l’humain et technologies de genre monstrueux by Kevin Lambert

“…The monster who narrates the novel is built at the intersection of socially prohibited economic, racial and criminal behaviors and sexual desires, which compose his fictional abjection. The novel therefore testifies to some important changes in the contemporary imagination surrounding the monster. …”
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Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and "Chocolate-box Gothic" by Avril Horner

“…On y observera la manière dont les auteurs féminins ont utilisé l’inquiétante étrangeté et l’abjection afin de soulever des problèmes concernant l’égalité des droits et d’interroger les constructions culturelles du corps de la femme et de ses désirs. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Du Bois, Walter White, and Wallace Thurman—Gaines erects Miss Jane as a she/male icon who prophesies the integrated, interracial, harmonious United States nation that emerges ironically out of black folk’s capacity to endure and transcend an entrenched history of state-endorsed racial violence and abjection. Gaines chooses a woman as his medium/subject both to envelope the image of the gigantic black feminine as black nationalist icon and to counter that image in favor of a conscientious black nation within a bloody white nation, the black (wo)man as the purifying conscience of the historically compromised American nation-state. …”
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Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users by Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani, Majid Movahed, Halimeh Enayat, Aliyar Ahmadi

“…Instagram serves as a platform for re(constructing) the menstrual experience, enabling individuals to redefine their own narratives, challenge gender taboos, and create an environment conducive to changing negative norms and attitudes.By employing Foucault’s concept of bio-power and Kristeva’s notion of abjection, this study illustrated how social and cultural systems influenced women’s bodies and how their experiences of menstruation were reflected in both social and digital spaces like Instagram. …”
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Le « montage » dans l’esthétique poétique de Roxana Miranda Rupailaf (poète Mapuche Huilliche) by Claudia Arellano Hermosilla

“…The text that follows, examines how the esthetic-poetics of Roxana Miranda Rupailaf materializes a discursive place from and to the abject, capable of threatening the homogeneity of the founding myths of Judeo-Christian tradition. …”
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Voces poéticas de la periferia: la poesía de Alessandro Buzo como articuladora de una comunidad alternativa de cuidado by Jorge Ignacio Cid Alarcón

“…This article reflects on the recent productions of marginal peripheral literature, particularly the case of the poetry of Alessandro Buzo’s poetry in light of the notions of the abject as a matrix of segregation (Kristeva, Butler), fear as political affection (Safatle), community (Bauman) and care communities (Butler), in order to evaluate its poetics as a critical articulating tool of an alternative care community.…”
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Les Dynastes de Thomas Hardy : une poétique spectrale à l’œuvre contre la guerre by Annie Escuret

“…The living-dead, the phantom, the spectre appear in Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993) but these concepts also appear in Freud’s notion of « The Uncanny », Foucault’s categories of silence and unspeakability or Kristeva’s definition of the abject. In The Dynasts, Hardy wrote an epic of human automatism or impulsion, an account of human action in spite of human knowledge which is a most violent indictment of war showing that Hardy heralds modern pacifists like Michel Serres or René Girard.…”
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„Święta misja profesora Abronsiusa”. Fantazmaty, abiektalność i transgresje w filmie Romana Polańskiego "Nieustraszeni pogromcy wampirów" by Jakub Rawski

“…When interpreting and analyzing the picture, it seems worthwhile to employ phantasmatic criticism drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of culture and consider the issue of the abject and transgressive nature of vampiric heroes. …”
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The ambiguous other. Engaging with far right and other uncomfortable subjectivities by Katerina Hatzikidi

“…Abstract: This article explores anthropological hesitation in engaging with “abject” or otherwise “uncomfortable” subjectivities, identifying some of the main concerns and challenges behind it. …”
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Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895) by Claire Wrobel

“…Moreover, he breaks the original systematic association of « Gothic » and « barbaric » with « medieval » in order to include the refined cruelties and mysteries of pagan rites in his abject visions. In a final twist, he sets a barbaric scene in a decaying mansion meant to embody the eighteenth century, thus « gothicizing » the age of enlightenment and urbanity.…”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…This paper investigates how contemporary landscape photography has sought to introduce the image of industrial ruins into the realm of collective visual imagination by drawing on aesthetic conventions of the Picturesque and the Pictorial, on the one hand, and on the conventions characteristic for developments in contemporary photography (from documentary aesthetics in the work of John Davies, through the “abject” in the work of Richard Billingham and Tom Hunter, to the post-pastoral landscape photography by John Kippin). …”
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Gendered Cartographies in Melissa Scott’s Science Fiction: Queering Shadow Man (1995) by Beatriz Hermida Ramos

“…I analyse how the economic relations between both spaces, Hara and the Concord worlds, shape the understanding of gender and sexuality, and I focus on how the friction between the two systems highlights the power of the nation-state to mark certain bodies as foreign, undesirable and abjected. Finally, I conclude that Scott’s depiction of ‘the wry-abled’ and ‘the odd-bodied’ offers nuanced opportunities to interact with the sex-gender system through speculation while emphasizing how these categories are artificial social constructions.…”
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Normalizar: discurso, legislación y educación sexual by Germán Torres

“…Such instances simultaneously and necessarily produced exclusion, defining an abject space for those identities and bodies which are opposed to the heteronormative.…”
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