Studies in the Fantastic [#20]
Studies in the Fantastic is a journal devoted to the speculative, fantastic, and weird in literature and other arts. The contents of this issue include: “‘They Hear ’Em, but They Can’t See ’Em’: Uncovering the Hidden Monstrosities of Colonialism in Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil” by Erica Tortolani; “Imagining Slipstream: Undefining Reality in Jan Carson’s The Fire Starters” by Jess Gallerie; “Toward a Theory of Black Horror and the Fantastic Real: Ontological Violence in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s ‘The Finkelstein 5’” by Joseph L. Lewis; “Legends and Legend Webs in Andy Duncan’s Fiction” by Jennifer Eastman Attebery; “Biophilia, New Urbanism, and ‘He’: H. P. Lovecraft’s Contribution to Environmental Thought” by Dylan Lee Henderson; “Magic Cloaks on Spaceships and the Chosen One from Space: Science Fantasy as Metafiction in Spelljammer: Beyond the Moons and Cards of Grief” by Kieran Strand-Leeds; (Peter Hutchings Award Winner) “Cripping the Monstrous-Feminine: Reading Disability in Recent Pregnancy Horror Films” by Katherine Lucia Prentice; “Gender, Genre, and the Politics of Prestige in the Long Fifties: A Review of On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett” by Kevin Spencer; and “‘Music So True’: Queering Conjure in Sinners” by Brenton Boyd.
