| Sumario: | This article examines the somatechnics of the monstrous anger and intense feelings that move, wave-like, through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Susan Stryker's 'My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage'. Throughout, I examine how these feelings diffract through nodes in the texts and map out not only important differences between them, but also larger diffraction patterns that touch and move their readers: monstrous genders, language as a tool for resistance to abjection, queer kinships that lead to transformation, and a monstrous fury that reconfigures language. Taking up Karen Barad's notion of 'intra-action', I argue that the somatechnics of bodily feelings that move through these texts and push at their readers interpellate those of us who are open to thinking with Stryker into new and different understandings of language, materiality, and gender.
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