A Turbid Moodiness Lingers: Horrorism and Human Relations

Louise Katz

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A Turbid Moodiness Lingers: Horrorism and Human Relations

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Pages:: 227–236

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848881112_025

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Certain images and stories that resonate in the cultural imagination become validated over time; they bleed into reality to become socially and politically affective. If misrecognised or unacknowledged, an entire people may come to be viewed as monstrous, or their identity rendered down until they come to be seen as more spectral than human. I will deal specifically with how Jewishness and Arabness have been imagined, so that in quite different contexts these peoples come to be apprehended as liminal beings rather than human beings, having been, in a sense, ‘de-realised’. In the traditional anti-Semitic perspective the Jew is viewed—by the dominant culture within which he or she co-exists—as vampiric. Also discussed is how, in contemporary Israel/Palestine, the Arab presence becomes—for certain parts of the Jewish population—ghostly, or monstrous. This dynamic implicates both the coloniser and colonised; indeed, at work here is a congeries of interrelationships, far more complex than the traditional self/other dichotomy. This chapter deals with the role of storytelling in the construction of reality, and how in the course of a narrative, places and people may come to be seen as more mythic than real, more monstrous than human.

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Twisted Mirrors: Reflections of Monstrous Humanity

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Apr 2012

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
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