Intro
Subjects Barbarian,Monstrous, and Wild
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild
Setting the Terms
Outline of Contents
Works Cited
Feared and Longed for Barbarian Invasions inContemporary Politics and Culture
Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics
Abstract
Barbarian Invasions: An Enlightenment Trope
Barbarians and the Discourse of Culturalization Since 1989
Barbarian, Savage, Monster: The War on Terror as a War of Words
Barbarism in Post-Truth Politics: Trump the Barbarian
Systemic Barbarians and Linguistic Disobedience
Works Cited
The Fall of Rome and Rise of Empire in Denys Arcand's Les Invasions barbares
Abstract
A Persistent and Politicized Story
Narrative as Schemata
Arcand's Invasions
Conclusions and Complications
Coda: Art, Critique, and the Current Moment
Works Cited
From Compton to Congress: The Barbarians Inside the Gates-An Exploration of 'Black Subjectivity' in Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly
Abstract
We Gon' Be Alright
Black As the Moon
Hood Politics
Works Cited
Barbarians in Istanbul: Different Approaches Towards the Urban Transformation ­Conundrum
Abstract
The 13th Istanbul Biennale
The Barbarian Language of Protest
Conclusion
Works Cited
Savages and Monsters Old, New, and Refurbished:Canons Recast in Literature and Film
Deconstructing Caliban's Genealogy of 'Otherness' in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête: The Figuration of the Barbarian, Wild Man, and Cannibal in the Western Literary Canon
Abstract
The Establishment of the Barbarian in the Hellenic World and Greek Tragedy
The Figuration of the Wild Man in Medieval Romances
The Renaissance and the Emergence of the Cannibal.

Rewriting the Occidental Literary Canon: Shakespeare and Césaire's Tempests
Works Cited
Savage as Living Ghost: Rethinking Eurocentrism and Decoloniality in The Revenant
Abstract
The Logic of Coloniality and Its Undoing
Decolonial Moments
The Savage's Haunting
To Live with Ghosts
Works Cited
Grotesque Genius: The Aesthetics of Form and Affect in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Abstract
Formal Issues: The Relationship Between Genius and Monstrosity
Ontological Difficulties and Posthuman Perspectives
Works Cited
The Monstrosity of the Female Artist in Dept. of Speculation, The Blazing World, and I Love Dick
Abstract
Monsters and Artists
The Monster as a Stigma: Dept. of Speculation and The Blazing World
The Monster that Liberates: I Love Dick
Conclusion
Works Cited
Strange Bedfellows: Queering Barbarians,Barbarizing Self-Identity, Playing Holocaust
Glamazons: Queer Barbarians in Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea and RuPaul's Drag Race
Abstract
Glamazon
Disidentifications and Amazonian Kinship
Limitations of the Body
Rituals and Formalization
Rewriting Herstory
Works Cited
Longboats, Oak, and the Dark Days of the Northmen: Seamus Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells
Abstract
The Barbarous and the Barbaric
Heaney's Barbarisms in The Secret of Kells
Conclusion
Works Cited
"To Appreciate the Perfection of the Machinery": Rethinking the Notion of Barbarism in 'Playful' Holocaust Representation
Abstract
The Barbarian
Holocaust and Play
Kamp
Re-mediation in Kamp
Distance vs. Proximity in Kamp
Seriousness vs. Playfulness in Kamp
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index.