Erasing Frankenstein : Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project
Erasing Frankenstein : Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project
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Author(s): Effinger, Elizabeth
ISBN No.: 9781771126182
Pages: 352
Year: 202409
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 55.19
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Who gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded? These are the questions at the heart of Erasing Frankenstein: A Public Humanities Prison Arts Project. This book tells the story of a public humanities project involving federally incarcerated women and university students in which participants, under the name of The Erasing Frankenstein Collective, collaboratively created a long erasure poem using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as source text. The project used erasure poetry -- poetry made by blotting out existing words to create a poem with the words that remain -- to highlight the systematic silencing of marginalized peoples, a theme that is central to Frankenstein. Erasing Frankenstein contains the erasure adaptation (175+ full-colour plates) and essays that contextualize the project in a broader, interdisciplinary, scholarly context, connecting the project to ongoing conversations about Frankenstein's cultural legacy, its social justice themes, public scholarship, and the public domain. The book also includes an annotated list of erasure poetry to inspire future work. This book is aimed at a diverse audience from arts and humanities scholars and teachers interested in Frankenstein and its adaptations, to scholar-practitioners engaged in prison arts and education, outreach activities, and forms of public scholarship.


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