The study aims to examine Jeff VanderMeer's 'Borne' and 'Dead Astronauts' to describe how the shaping power of monstrosity, weirdness, complexity, and grotesquery in a post-apocalyptic setting can be best appreciated when certain religious tropes are applied to the analysis of the novel's unfolding events. Biblical tropes can help connect the present situation to a past that otherwise exists as a dead and desolate wasteland devoid of any meaning in the post-apocalyptic settings of the novels mentioned above. The study bases its theoretical framework on Foucault's and Negri's concepts of monstrosity, as well as Bakhtin's concept of grotesque.
Author (s) DetailsIndrajit Patra
Independent Researcher, NIT, Durgapur, India.
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