Fearful Manifestations: a Comparative Study of the Monstrous Double in Ahmed Khaled Towfikâs Utopia

Ghada Saad Hassan

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In: On Fear, Horror, and Terror: Giving Utterance to the Unutterable

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The term âmonsterâ usually defines an entity that is extremely large or unnatural, inhuman, horrible, or wicked. However, that term has evolved to acquire various connotations over the years â connotations that are related to the cultural and historical contexts in which the monstrous is produced. Thus, the study of the monster paradigm in works of fiction necessarily requires an examination of the historical, social, and cultural environments which contribute to the shaping of various monsters in different contexts. This chapter will attempt to analyze and interpret the nature of the monster, namely the âabjectâ monster, and how each culture produces the type of monster that embodies its anxieties and fears. It aims at analyzing literary representations of the monstrous double in Arabic contemporary horror fiction, and in Ahmed Khaled Towfikâs Utopia (2008) in particular. The analysis of manifestations of monstrosity within the cultural molds that produced it calls for a Foucauldian approach of power relations, the better to interpret the literary text and its cultural, historical, and socio-political dimensions.

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On Fear, Horror, and Terror: Giving Utterance to the Unutterable

Series:Â At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 125

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004397996

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 14 Jun 2019

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