/lit/ - Literature

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Gothic and Horror has always queered cisheternormative “reality” with monstrous feminine and queer Others. By subverting gendered expectations and undermining the patriarchal Real, horror disrupts gender roles and unlooses the Abject difference of queer alterity. What is Frankenstein if not an assemblage of different bodies that zaps away the gendered focus of patriarchal panopticon? Is not Dracula sucking and spreading queer identity through sexual violence, as a metaphor for sodomy/forbidden sex? What of the haunted castle and Sadeian gothic? Are these not unleashing the Id from the repression of the Ego and Superego, bringing about a hauntology of sexual discourses? Mary Shelley, after all, unleashed the monstrous abortions of patriarchal margins and the repression of the feminine Other.