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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: 9.2 Monstrous Dreaming: Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper
Description: What work can genre do today? And can the genre system become more than a method of reductive containment and market segmentationâcan it be a generative source of imaginative chaos? Few are as qualified to address these questions as Lauren Beukes, whose simultaneous embrace of genres from science fiction to crime to horror and refusal to abide within their bordersâwhat she calls her âBig Fuck You Energyââhas rendered her, by her own account, âbasically un-shelve-able.â Beukes is joined by crime fiction scholar (and novelist) Andrew Pepper of Queenâs University Belfast for a conversation that dances across her oeuvreâs...