The colonial subject as Frankenstein
Posted by on Sunday, February 12th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
I encountered this image in the readings for another seminar; it’s from an 1882 Punch. The caption reads: “The baleful and blood-stained Monster * * * yet was it not my Master to the very extent that it was my Creature? * * * Had I not breathed into it my own spirit?”
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Great print. I tweeted in class the other day (copying from Amanda’s/Allie’s group exercise on the board):
“Monsters pre-Frankenstein: golem, hydra, Grendel, disease/-d people, tyrants; post-Frankenstein: Cylon, borgs, bullies, pedophiles #technoro”
…to which an old friend of mine replied:
“Pre-Frankenstein: people we colonized; post-Frankenstein: we, the colonizers.”
I wonder if this holds up beyond the examples I supplied. Worth thinking about, anyways, especially given the title/nature of this post.
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