Weirding the Other — Transgressing Toward Inhumanity

dc.contributor.advisor	Crouse, Nikki D
dc.contributor.author	Forrest, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned	2025-08-01T22:12:14Z
dc.date.available	2025-08-01T22:12:14Z
dc.date.issued	2025-08-01
dc.date.submitted	2025
dc.description	Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2025
dc.description.abstract	This critical essay positions marginalized others as weird and inhuman others, exploring both the weirded experiences of an othered life and the potential for weird others to achieve radical alterity by relinquishing the fight for humanness, and instead finding kinship with the inhuman, and the further weird. This essay engages with seminal critical works regarding the weird, as well as contemporary fiction novels that are widely considered to demonstrate the weird, The City & the City by China MiÃ©ville, and The Ballad of Black Tom Victor LaValle. In addition, I put forth The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright and Henry Dumas’ short story, “Fon”, as illustrations of weirded marginalized experiences.
dc.embargo.terms	Open Access
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.other	Forrest_washington_0250O_28445.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1773/53292
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.rights	none
dc.subject	inhumanism
dc.subject	science fiction
dc.subject	weird
dc.subject	Creative writing
dc.subject	Black studies
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject.other	English
dc.title	Weirding the Other — Transgressing Toward Inhumanity
dc.type	Thesis

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