[PDF] African American Gothic eBook

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137315288

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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.

Author : Leila Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1912248557

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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

Author : Teresa A. Goddu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231108171

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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.

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470671874

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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

Author : Corinna Lenhardt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 383945154X

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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.

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0708322484

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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.

Author : Keith Cartwright
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813158338

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The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137003508

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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.

Author : Maisha Wester
Publisher : Edinburgh Companions to the Go
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440936

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This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century.

Author : Leila Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1912248557

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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