Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Date
2023
Document Type
Dissertation (Access Restricted)
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Communication
Committee Chair
Marina Levina
Committee Member
David Goodman
Committee Member
David Stephens
Committee Member
Derefe Chevannes
Abstract
This project explores three films as the primary texts for analysis: Candyman (2021), AGWHAAN, and Okja. Through each film, I articulate the ways in which monstrosity is shaped by cultural anxieties surrounding race, gender, and sexuality. Furthermore, I contend that each film’s monstrous rhetoric is deeply embedded in a politics of liberation, which seek to eliminate the over-articulation of white humanity and form universal humanism which radically includes marginalized peoples. Though each film approaches liberation differently, the liberatory rhetoric of monstrosity highlights how Otherized communities (re)negotiate humanity to include non-white, non-Western onto-epistemologies.
Library Comment
Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to ProQuest
Notes
No Access
Recommended Citation
Tabrizi, Hannah, "Black ghosts, Brown vampires, and queer pigs: Race, gender, sexuality, and rhetorics of liberatory monstrosity" (2023). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2984.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/2984
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