Monsters and Heroes: The Ironies of Black Subjectivity in Stephen Crane’s The Monster and Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground by Joseph L. Lewis

“…Crane et Wright ont le projet commun de proposer une construction des concepts de race, d'identité et de représentation à travers le personnage du monstre, mais leurs visions s'opposent en raison de leurs origines culturelles. Je pose alors la question suivante : dans quelle mesure les origines culturelles peuvent-elles orienter la réception des images littéraires et influencer la manière de présenter ces images dans la littérature américaine ? …”
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Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…A contemporary form of human-animal hybridism, however, raised serious questions about the ontological definition of human nature. …”
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Monsters Among Us: In What Ways Can the Viral Jubilee’s Trans Debate Video Contribute to Educational Discussions? by Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng

“…Additionally, the value of guiding students to consistently question «who, where, and why» is emphasised, with a focus on how a monstrous lens can contribute to the enhancement of developmental learning experiences. …”
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Epistemic Disruptions. Autofiction and Identity Politics in Paul B. Preciado’s Can the Monster Speak? (2020) and Kim de l’Horizon’s Blutbuch (2022) by Stephanie Bremerich

“…Both texts use autofiction as a means of epistemic disruption, that is as a critical questioning of Western epistemology, especially with regard to academic discourse (Preciado) and cultural memory (de l’Horizon). …”
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« Les Mains du tueur Weidmann » by Nicolas Bianchi

“…This paper questions the media strategy of the magazine Détective when the Weidmann affair came out, which involved a German serial murderer, whose motives were quite unclear, in 1937. …”
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« Monstreuses » : biotechnologies, figures et fictions féministes dans le récit bref de science-fiction by Michèle Soriano

“…Answer the question « who are we ? » requires agreements, moves, translations and connections, but we are freeing from paranoia, segregation, borders and invaders, security policies and redeeming apocalypses.…”
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Frontières de l’humain et technologies de genre monstrueux by Kevin Lambert

“…In fact, Cooper's novel questions the link between gender and monster: the monster, just as gender, is exhibited as a cultural and discursive production, through the exploration of the sexual and cultural devices that produce it. …”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…Having raised questions about the general concept of humanization with regard to half-human and half-animal creatures, we will examine it in some Western texts written in the historical period roughly between the ninth and fifteenth centuries to see if these hybrids have already benefited from humanization in one form or another in the past. …”
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Le corps du monstre sans-papiers by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…Wells’ The Time Machine, then the question of the monstrosity of Frankenstein’s monster. …”
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Dracula : mécanique des fluides et roman des angoisses circulatoires by Maël Baussand

“…Indeed, anxious Victorian concerns persisting about different types of flow lead us to question the concrete visibility of sexual bodily fluids (sperm, menses and milk) in the novel. …”
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Le métier d’enseignant : formation professionnelle et formation des talents by Umberto Margiotta

“…The masterization process of initial teacher training, in Italy and in France, settles strong façon in the problem of links between teacher training and educational research. For us the monster crucial question is that a new compass is essential. …”
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Les agressions sexuelles dans les téléséries québécoises : une analyse des normes sexuelles et de genre contemporaines by Amélie Cousineau

“…The main goal of this article is to analyze representations of sexual violence against women in Quebec mainstream television series, to question the sexual and gender norms. By mobilizing the theory of sexual scripts of Simon and Gagnon, the following questions were studied: which kind of scripts can we observe in these representations and what does the presence (and coexistence) of these scripts tell us about contemporary sexual and gender norms. …”
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Rousseau et les Pongos by Thomas Robert

“…In note X of the Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes, Rousseau calls the Pongoes up in the context of his anthropology. The question is to determine wether the Pongoes are human beings. …”
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X-Men : la puissance de la défaillance, entre infirmité et post-humanité by Adrien Cascarino

“…Some transhumanist fictions, especially the figure of the mutant in the X-men, can then help us reshape our representations of the human body, by questioning the boundaries set between monsters, the cripple, humans and transhumans, not with the aim of destroying the existing borders between these categories but rather of destroying the evidence of their outlines, which always need to be (re)constructed.…”
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Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology by Emeline Jouve

“…To what extent does the use of technology annihilate or magnify the physical presence of the actor, the traditional soul and raison d’être of the art of the theatre? To answer this question, this paper focuses on works by the pioneering Wooster Group (1975-), the eminent Big Art Group (1999-) and the new rising star of the New York experimental scene, Andrew Schneider (2015-). …”
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As Spirits Speak: Interaction in Wauja Exoteric Ritual by Christopher Ball

“…In view of the gravity of the circumstance and the weight of the obligation it creates, the ritual interaction is a surprisingly inelaborate and quotidian counterpart to Wauja esoteric shamanic practice and elaborate collective rituals involving music and dance. I question how it is that Wauja ideology supports the practice of regular folk verbally channeling spirits, and suggest that in fact Wauja cultural ideologies of illness, language, and cosmology emerge in precisely such interactive texts as this. …”
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“But lo the thing’s inside and can you guess his shape?”: the semiotic elaboration of Cormac McCarthy’s autotextual creature in his early novels and No Country for Old Men by Yvonne-Marie Rogez

“…In the introduction to Suttree, the narrator warns the reader of the terrible events to come and indicates that the “thing’s” place is inward. The question of its shape and its representation pervades Cormac McCarthy’s works. …”
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