V. L. Rinawmi

Monsters as Mentors: Power, Otherness, and Cultural Belonging in Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book.”

Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book” (2008) positions a graveyard not as a place of endings but as a site of education, where the dead raise the living and the monstrous becomes pedagogical. This article examines how Gaiman reconfigures relationships between power, otherness, and culture within the framework of popular c...