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- Autobiography of Red, books, fantasy, Hiromi Goto, Jeff Vandermeer, speculative fiction, The Wizard of Earthsea
By Lawrence Stewen
Slaying monsters has gotten old. Rather, it was always old.
Firstly, the act glorifies violence as a solution. Secondly, more often than not, it empowers the cis male protagonist while demonizing those whose bodies and minds do not conform to his society’s “norm.” Not a great look. While fictional violence can be cathartic and satisfying to consume, it’s good to be mindful of the underlying themes that such violence carries. So, let’s mix things up.
What if instead of violence, non-humans were met with understanding? What if they were the protagonists of their own stories? Here are five beautiful monsters whose hopeful stories embrace the power of empathy.
Spoiler Warning: If you plan on reading any of the books in the list then stop reading now!
1. The Shadow
The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Of the monsters on this list, The Shadow is probably the most traditional. At least from the outset. Wizard-in-training, Ged, accidentally summons a terrible shapeless creature from the realm of the dead. When running away from it fails, and the cliched magic sword proves to be nothing but a rumour, Ged decides to confront it face to face. Le Guin’s tale would have been a straight-forward high fantasy hero’s journey if not for the fact that violence does not solve the monster.
Instead, Ged learns that the creature’s true name is his own, “Ged.” The Shadow is a reflection of himself, a dark fragment of his own soul that he learns to accept, ending his own haunting by reaching out to hug his own Shadow. This moment subverts thousands of years of heroes slaying monsters.
2. Borne
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer
When Rachel and Wick adopt what appears to be an alien house plant, they are taken by surprise when it transforms into a Lovecraftian blob-monster with all the curiosity and intelligence of a human child. Meet Borne, your friendly neighbourhood shoggoth with a penchant for lizards.
Unfortunately, Borne’s presence in their lives makes things complicated to say the least. While Rachel cares for him unconditionally, Wick is suspicious and refuses to see him as anything more than a biological weapon. Vandermeer complicates his characters’ relationship with monstrosity, while also challenging the concept that “normal” humans exist.
Like Lilo and Stitch and The Iron Giant, Borne familiarizes the monster by making him cute and relatable, but it goes a step further because Borne forces Rachel and Wick to not only question their feelings towards a nonhuman being, but to question the line that separates them—as humans—from monsters.
3. Geryon
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Carson took the Tenth Labour of Heracles and turned it into a gay YA romance story told in verse. Instead of killing Geryon and stealing his cattle, Heracles gets Geryon to fall in love with him before breaking his heart. The break up sets Geryon off on a soul-searching journey where he comes to accept the parts of himself which make him monstrous in the eyes of others, and through that acceptance he matures—empowered by his own insecurities.
Replacing violence with love and death with heartbreak, Carson’s novel suggests new ways monsters can be included in stories and how our society’s use of the word “monster” can be redefined, changing its negative connotations into positive empowerment.
4. Marl
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Siren by Amanda Lee Koe
Marl, the child of a sailor and a mermaid, makes a living working as a stripper and a prostitute. Koe’s unnamed protagonist was once Marl’s classmate in elementary school, one of many who bullied him for his different behaviours and feminine appearance. In the future, the protagonist encounters Marl working in a strip club, allowing him to express his repressed queerness in a sexual encounter with the boy he once bullied. Their encounter leads to an intimate relationship which sends him deeper into Marl’s personal history.
Koe’s story speaks to how stories often link monstrosity with people from marginalized communities. The growing relationship between the protagonist and Marl asks us to accept bodies that exist outside of the heteronormative sphere, to complicate categories of race, gender and sex, and to reimagine long outdated concepts of normalcy.
5. The Baby
Hopeful Monsters by Hiromi Goto
What happens when a woman gives birth to a baby with a tail and then finds out that she once had a tail, too? Why are bodies outside of the norm deemed monstrous?
Goto’s short story raises these questions as Hisa’s relatively ordinary life takes a turn for the strange. Her family and the hospital staff all agree that surgical removal is necessary. However, Hisa wonders why her daughter’s natural body has to be altered to fit into society’s preconceived notion of what a human body should and should not have.
Goto’s story interrogates the very idea of monstrosity, and in doing so suggests that monstrosity is not tied to physicality, gender, or sexuality, but to behaviours which enforce the values and laws that leave no room for bodies or minds to exist outside of the idealized norm.
Though this list has some neat examples of how speculative stories are changing the narrative role of the monster by vouching for empathy over bloodshed, it is hardly comprehensive.
What are the stories you’ve read (or written) that have given beings deemed monstrous a chance to be understood?
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