Introducing The Minor Monster.   Throughout the history of the Western literary canon, queerness and queer literature have been consistently rendered non-functional participants in what philosopher Judith Butler calls the “heterosexual matrix” (12). Queerness has been ossified as monstrous and defined only by its Otherness to the said matrix. Consequently, for queer subjects to circumnavigate these … Continue reading Toward a Minor Monster: becoming-monstrous in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Jennette Winterson’s Frankisstein. →