The Abject of Desire -- Contents -- Introduction -- On the Matter of Abjection -- Queer Transformations: Renegotiating the Abject in Contemporary Anglo-American Lesbian Fiction -- The Bhibhitsa Rasa in Anglophone Indian Cultural Discourse: The Repugnant and Distasteful at the Level of Gender, Race, and Caste -- The Gothic-Grotesque of Haunted: Joyce Carol Oates's Tales of Abjection -- "Now we know that gay men are just men after all": Abject Sexualities in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- Consuming the Body: Literal and Metaphorical Cannibalism in Peter Greenaway's Films -- Shape-Shifters from the Wilderness: Werewolves Roaming the Twentieth Century -- 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 -- Fear, Melancholy, and Loss in the Poetry of Stevie Smith -- American Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle's A Friend of the Earth -- Abject Cannibalism: Anthropophagic Poetics in Conrad, White, and Tennant - Towards a Critique of Julia Kristeva's Theory of Abjection -- "A Wet Festival of Scarlet": Poppy Z. Brite's (Un)Aesthetics of Murder -- Interior Landscapes: Anatomy Art and the Work of Gunther von Hagens -- Violence, Transgression, and the Fun Factor: The Imagined Atrocities of Will Self's My Idea of Fun -- Notes on Contributors.