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Monstrous difference tends to be:
...to bear witness to the fact that it could have been constructed Otherwise.
The monster is an incorporation of the Outside, the Beyond—
of all those loci that are rhetorically placed as distant and distinct
but originate Within.
The monster seeks out its author to demand a raison d`etre (the most important reason or purpose for someone's existence)...
Holocaust 1933-1945
Bosnia 1992-1995
Monsters are created through a process of fragmentation and recombination in which elements are extracted from various forms and then reassembled as monsters.
Political or Ideological differences are a catalyst on the micro level
Manifest Destiny/Slaughter of the Native Americans in the 1800s
Exaggeration of cultural differences become monstrous aberration
One kind of difference becomes another
Representing an anterior culture as monstrous justifies its displacement or extermination
The master/slave dialect naturalizes the subjugation of one cultural body by another by writing the excluded body from personhood and agency as in every way different
Gender, sexuality, national identity, ethnicity, slide together in a Venn Diagram, abjecting from the center that which becomes the monster
Africa early became the West’s significant other, the sign of its ontological difference simply being skin color.
Race has been almost as powerful a catalyst to the creation of monsters as culture, gender, and sexuality.
Rwanda 1994 Genocide
History itself becomes a monster
Difference that exists outside the system is terrifying because it reveals the truth of the system, its relativity, its fragility, and its mortality
The embodiment of radical difference, paradoxically threatens to erase difference from the world of its creators