- Organised by: AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos)
- Paula García-Rodríguez: “It’s my body!”: Reclaiming the Deviant Body of the Monstrous Woman through Horror in Queen of Teeth (2021)
Description of the activity
At the 48th AEDEAN Conference, Paula García Rodriguez presented a paper examining the subversive potential of body horror in contemporary feminist and queer narratives. The paper focused on Queen of Teeth (Hailey Piper, 2021), and explored how the novel reimagines the monstrous female body. The protagonist of the novel, Yaya Betancourt, embraces mutation and monstrosity as forms of self-affirmation.
Drawing on theoretical frameworks by Barbara Creed, Judith Butler, Sara Ahmed, Donna Haraway, and Rosi Braidotti, the presentation argued that contemporary horror fiction has become a powerful spaces for articulating queer, posthuman, and alternative subjectivities.