{"product_id":"erasing-frankenstein-remaking-the-monster-a-public-humanities-prison-arts-project-paperback","title":"Erasing Frankenstein: Remaking the Monster, a Public Humanities Prison Arts Project - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Effinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded? These are the questions at the heart of \u003ci\u003eErasing Frankenstein: A Public Humanities Prison Arts Project.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of a public humanities project involving federally\u003cbr\u003eincarcerated women and university students in which participants, under the\u003cbr\u003ename of The Erasing Frankenstein Collective, collaboratively created a long\u003cbr\u003eerasure poem using Mary Shelley's \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e as source text. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project used erasure poetry -- poetry made by blotting out\u003cbr\u003eexisting words to create a poem with the words that remain -- to highlight the\u003cbr\u003esystematic silencing of marginalized peoples, a theme that is central to\u003cbr\u003eFrankenstein. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErasing Frankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e contains the erasure adaptation (175+\u003cbr\u003efull-colour plates) and essays that contextualize the project in a broader, \u003cbr\u003einterdisciplinary, scholarly context, connecting the project to ongoing\u003cbr\u003econversations about Frankenstein's cultural legacy, its social justice themes, \u003cbr\u003epublic scholarship, and the public domain. The book also includes an annotated\u003cbr\u003elist of erasure poetry to inspire future work. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is aimed at a diverse audience from arts and\u003cbr\u003ehumanities scholars and teachers interested in \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e and its\u003cbr\u003eadaptations, to scholar-practitioners engaged in prison arts and education, \u003cbr\u003eoutreach activities, and forms of public scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Effinger is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick where she teaches British Romanticism with special interests in William Blake, the intersections of Romantic science and literature, the Anthropocene, human-animal studies, pedagogy and the public humanities. She co-edited William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (Manchester University Press, 2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 308\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42152476016775,"sku":"9781771126182","price":50.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7a62198f07caef68768cc63ca0093873.webp?v=1733214771","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/erasing-frankenstein-remaking-the-monster-a-public-humanities-prison-arts-project-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}