![]() ![]() Using Judith Butler's notion of the social abject and the materialized/dematerialized body, the article first looks at the abjected bodies of the Remade and how they are discursively and socially constructed, finding parallels with the queer figures in the novel. ![]() ![]() This article explores the social boundaries of the titular train, the Iron Council. China Miéville's Iron Council (2004), as one of the major texts of the New Weird, is a prime example of weird fiction as a novel concerned with the establishment and extension of territorial and economic boundaries, however, it is also a western in its thematic ethos, its aesthetic sensibilities, and its preoccupation with notions of the frontier. ![]()
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