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African American Gothic

M. Wester
African American Gothic Book PDF

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137315281

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African American Gothic by M. Wester Pdf

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.

African American Gothic

M. Wester
African American Gothic Book PDF

Author : M. Wester
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137003502

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African American Gothic by M. Wester Pdf

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

Leila Taylor
Darkly Book PDF

Author : Leila Taylor
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781912248551

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Darkly by Leila Taylor Pdf

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

Savage Horrors

Corinna Lenhardt
Savage Horrors Book PDF

Author : Corinna Lenhardt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839451540

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Savage Horrors by Corinna Lenhardt Pdf

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.

A Companion to American Gothic

Charles L. Crow
A Companion to American Gothic Book PDF

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118608425

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A Companion to American Gothic by Charles L. Crow Pdf

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

History of the Gothic: American Gothic

Charles L. Crow
History of the Gothic American Gothic Book PDF

Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322482

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History of the Gothic: American Gothic by Charles L. Crow Pdf

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.

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic Book PDF

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117143

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The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

Darryl Hattenhauer
Shirley Jackson s American Gothic Book PDF

Author : Darryl Hattenhauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791487426

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Shirley Jackson's American Gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer Pdf

Argues that Jackson's anticipation of postmodernism ranks her among the most significant writers of her time. Best known for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore ranks among the most significant writers of her time. The first comprehensive study of all of Jackson’s fiction, Shirley Jackson’s American Gothic offers readers the chance not only to rediscover her work, but also to see how and why a major American writer was passed over for inclusion in the canon of American literature. Darryl Hattenhauer is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University West.

Gothic America

Teresa A. Goddu
Gothic America Book PDF

Author : Teresa A. Goddu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0231108176

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Gothic America by Teresa A. Goddu Pdf

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.

American Gothic Literature

Ruth Bienstock Anolik
American Gothic Literature Book PDF

Author : Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476633404

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American Gothic Literature by Ruth Bienstock Anolik Pdf

 American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left its mark on the genre—the English ghostly setting becomes the wilderness haunted by spectral Indians. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans adds urgency to traditional Gothic anxieties about possession. The unchanging role of woman in early Gothic narratives parallels the status of American women, even after the Revolution. Twentieth-century Gothic works offer inclusion to previously silent voices, including immigrant writers with their own cultural traditions. The 21st century unleashes the zombie horde—the latest incarnation of the voracious American.

Book of African-American Quotations

Joslyn Pine
Book of African American Quotations Book PDF

Author : Joslyn Pine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486112442

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Book of African-American Quotations by Joslyn Pine Pdf

This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.

American Gothic

Jason Haslam
American Gothic Book PDF

Author : Jason Haslam
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474401623

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American Gothic by Jason Haslam Pdf

A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American CultureThis new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography, and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events. Key Features Features original critical writing by established and emerging scholarsSurveys the full range of American Gothic, from its earliest texts to 21st Century worksIncludes critical analyses of American Gothic in new media and technologiesWill establish new benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic traditions

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

Jerrold E. Hogle
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction Book PDF

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction

Charles L. Crow,Susan Castillo Street
Nineteenth Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction Book PDF

Author : Charles L. Crow,Susan Castillo Street
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781785273896

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Nineteenth-Century Southern Gothic Short Fiction by Charles L. Crow,Susan Castillo Street Pdf

The twelve Gothic tales of this collection span the nineteenth-century South and are from some of the most famous writers of the age, such as Edgar Allan Poe, to more recently rediscovered and now celebrated writers such as Kate Chopin and Charles Chesnutt, to the completely and unfairly obscure E. Levi Brown. Companion readings—some themselves quite chilling—are by celebrated writers and well-known historical figures, such as Thomas Jefferson, Charles Brockden Brown, Jacques Dessalines, and W. E. B DuBois. These readings place the fiction in the context of the South and the Caribbean: the revolution in Haiti, Nat Turner’s rebellion, the realities of slavery and the myths spun by its apologists, the aftermath of the Civil War, and the brutalities of Jim Crow laws.

Haunted Property

Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Haunted Property Book PDF

Author : Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496829719

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Haunted Property by Sarah Gilbreath Ford Pdf

Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.