Konstanze KUTZBACH and Monika MUELLER: Introduction Hanjo BERRESSEM: On the Matter of Abjection Paulina PALMER: Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction Nilufer BHARUCHA: The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste Susana ARAÚJO: The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates’s Tales of Abjection Dorothea FISCHER-HORNUNG: “Now we know that gay men are just men after all”: Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Tatjana PAVLOV: Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaway’s Films Andrea GUTENBERG: Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century Konstanze KUTZBACH: The Two-…, One-…, None-Sex Model: The Flesh(-)Made Machine in Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” and J. G. Ballard’s Crash Ruth BAUMERT: Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith Sylvia MAYER: American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth Russell WEST: Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant – Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva’s Theory of Abjection Monika MUELLER: “A Wet Festival of Scarlet”: Poppy Z. Brite’s (Un)Aesthetics of Murder Alison GOELLER: Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens Frank LAY: Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self’s My Idea of Fun Notes on Contributors