ABSTRACT

While the production of monsters through political and cultural discourses has never been as dominant as in recent years, the method through which this phenomenon is framed often remains engulfed in comparative essentialism reducing monsters to acts of transgression, with the inevitable result of articulating monstrosity as mere construction of the other. Such othered identity deprives monsters of reality, of their ontology, and confines them in a space of not-being, always defined through what they are not. This article challenges the idea of monstrosity as categorical transgression and uses the narrative of the ‘wrong body’ commonly associated with trans embodiment as a conceptual framework to argue for an ontology of monstrosity.

摘要

虽然通过政治和文化话语制造怪物从未像近年来那样占主导地位，但这种现象的框架化方法往往仍被比较本质主义所笼罩，将怪物简化为越界行为，其必然结果是将怪物表述为仅仅是其他的建设。这种他者的身份剥夺了怪物的现实，他们的本体，并将它们限制在一个非存在的空间中，总是通过它们不是什么来定义的。本文挑战将怪物视为分类违法的想法，并使用通常与跨性化身相关的“错误身体”的叙述作为概念框架来论证怪物的本体论。