M. Keith Booker Data-verified
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M. Keith Booker's research focuses on the intersection of literary studies, cultural criticism, and contemporary societal issues. His work examines how literature reflects and engages with themes such as climate change, posthumanism, and historical narratives. Booker has analyzed the allegorical strategies in contemporary horror films, the critical engagement with racial and historical themes in novels, and the representation of environmental collapse and societal futures in speculative fiction.
His scholarly output includes analyses of works by authors and filmmakers like Jordan Peele, Percival Everett, David Cronenberg, and Kim Stanley Robinson. Booker's publications explore theoretical frameworks including cognitive mapping, Menippean satire, and postmodernism, applying them to understand the complexities of modern storytelling and its relationship to pressing global concerns. He has published 156 works, with an h-index of 15 and 881 citations.
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- h-index: 15
- Publications: 155
- Citations: 890
Selected Publications
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Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
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Post-Black, Post-Huck, and Postmodern: The Dialogic Complexity of Percival Everett’s <em>James </em>(2024) (2025)
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Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s <i>The Trees</i> (2025)
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Don’t Worry Darling: Critiquing the nostalgic cultural logic of late patriarchy (2025)
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Environmental Change and Revenge (2025)
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Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2024)
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Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse: Art horror, alienated labour and capitalist routinization (2024)
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Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men (2024)
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Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant (2023)
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Ben Wheatley’s <i>In the Earth</i> (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning (2023)
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Lost in the funhouse: Allegorical horror and cognitive mapping in Jordan Peele’s Us (2021)
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- Lost in the funhouse: Allegorical horror and cognitive mapping in Jordan Peele’s Us
- The Political Form of Postmodernism: Bakhtin, Jameson, and Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future
- Ben Wheatley’s <i>In the Earth</i> (2021): Folk Horror as Climate Change Warning
- Renfield: The Vampire’s Undying Assistant
- Patriarchy Then and Now—With a Twist: The Postmodern Horror of Alex Garland’s Men
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
- From Calvinism to Consumerism: The Persistence of Patriarchy in Robert Eggers's The Witch (2015) and Anna Biller's The Love Witch (2016)
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