Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein

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dc.contributor.advisorYoung, Sandraen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorSofianos, Konstantinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMelvill, Oliveren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-25T07:18:27Z
dc.date.available2015-09-25T07:18:27Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which he is placed as the object of a discourse which construes him as other.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationMelvill, O. (2013). <i>Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMelvill, Oliver. <i>"Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMelvill, O. 2013. Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Melvill, Oliver AB - The dissertation engages in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse functions in the construction of physical alterity, this paper argues that through his exposure to language and society Frankenstein's creature becomes complicit in this process of imposition in which he is placed as the object of a discourse which construes him as other. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein TI - Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMelvill O. Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14077en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEnglish Literatureen_ZA
dc.titleEducating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankensteinen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMAen_ZA
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