All Outputs (6)

Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2024, August). Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics. Presented at The Flowing Image: The Ocean On-Screen, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

Atlantics (Atlantique, 2019) is Mati Diop’s first directorial feature film. The story takes place in Dakar in which luxury hotels are being developed for wealthy foreign customers. The Senegalese construction workers are left unpaid for three months... Read More about Unwavering Decolonial Hauntings in Mati Diop’s Atlantics.

New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity (2023)
Book Chapter
Bouet, E. (2023). New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity. In R. Duncan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (206-220). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Globalisation is often portrayed in politics as an equalising, homogenising, and beneficial phenomenon which allows for universal development, a discourse which in fact masks the inequalities that neoliberal, transnational institutions foster to reta... Read More about New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity.

Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body (2018)
Book Chapter
Cityscapes of the Future (49-65). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004361317_005

This chapter investigates the ways in which China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, Alastair Reynolds’ Terminal World and Christopher Priest’s Inverted World represent governments which enforce submission by creating monstrous architectural structur... Read More about Architecture of Punishment: Dystopian Cities Marking the Body.

Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans (2018)
Book Chapter
Bouet, E. (2018). Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans. In K. Wright (Ed.), Disgust and Desire: The Paradox of the Monster (111-141). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150_007

No abstract available.

Northern Light, Volume 6 (2015)
Book
E. Bouet, & T. Thomson (Eds.), (2015). Northern Light, Volume 6

A collection of original poetry, prose and drama by 2014-15 Creative Writing students at the Scottish Universities' International 
Summer School at the University Of Edinburgh.

Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2014, July). Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. Presented at Monstrosity

Jerome Cohen argues that the creature or the monster provides a space of interaction: ‘The space of transformation, becoming, passion, alterity, the uncanny, the utopian, is in fact an interspace.’ The relationship and conflict between the monster an... Read More about Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans..