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Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein
The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting h...
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| author | Melvill, Oliver |
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| description | The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which he is placed as the object of a discourse which construes him as other. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/14077 Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein Melvill, Oliver Young, Sandra Sofianos, Konstantin English Literature The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which he is placed as the object of a discourse which construes him as other. 2015-09-25T07:18:27Z 2015-09-25T07:18:27Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | English Literature Melvill, Oliver Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| title_full | Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| title_fullStr | Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| title_short | Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein |
| title_sort | educating the other the politics of somatic difference in frankenstein |
| topic | English Literature |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077 |
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