African American Gothic
Title | African American Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | M. Wester |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 499 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137315288 |
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.
Darkly
Title | Darkly PDF eBook |
Author | Leila Taylor |
Publisher | Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1912248557 |
A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards—the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly explores American culture’s inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is
Gothic America
Title | Gothic America PDF eBook |
Author | Teresa A. Goddu |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231108171 |
Goddu traces the development of the female, southern, and African-American gothic in literature between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, placing in a new historical context Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Alcott's ghost stories, and Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
A Companion to American Gothic
Title | A Companion to American Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Crow |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 2013-09-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118608429 |
A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available
Savage Horrors
Title | Savage Horrors PDF eBook |
Author | Corinna Lenhardt |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 383945154X |
The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively sedimented in the Gothic's uniquely binary structure. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic's anti-Black racism on the cultural discourses in the United States. At the same time, Savage Horrors traces the unflinching Black resistance back to the Gothic's intrinsic raciality. The African American Gothic, however, does not originate there but in the Black Atlantic - roughly a decade before the first Gothic novel was ever written on American soil.
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
Title | History of the Gothic: American Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Charles L. Crow |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2009-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0708322484 |
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
American Gothic
Title | American Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Biel |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780393059120 |
Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.