Man-Eating Monsters

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.

About the author

Dina Khapaeva is Professor at the School of Modern Languages, the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research comprises death studies, cultural studies, historical memory and Russian studies. Her recent monographs include The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (The University of Michigan Press, 2017), Nightmares: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project (Brill, 2013).

Summary

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, and death.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jack Denham (Editor), Dina Khapaeva (Editor), Dina (Georgia Institute of Technology Khapaeva (Editor)
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781787695283
• ISBN: 978-1-78769-528-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 359 g
• Series: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture; Emerald Studies in Death and C; Emerald Studies in Dealth and Culture Book Set (2018-2019)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Soziologie: Sterben und Tod, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie