Searching for Sycorax, 2017, p.1-15
2017
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror
- Ist Teil von
- Searching for Sycorax, 2017, p.1-15
- Ort / Verlag
- Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Defining the genre of horror remains an ongoing challenge, for it is one of the few genres that depends upon the reaction of the viewer/reader.¹ Like many questions of genre, particularly concerning genres not traditionally considered the High Arts, producing a definitive taxonomic definition of horror proves quite difficult. Contemporary horror fiction is a space in which deep-seated human anxieties can be given free reign because we are often defined by that which terrifies us. Our cultures and our lives are founded upon preventing a confrontation with our terrors. We create governments and prisons to civilize ourselves and abate our
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780813584621, 0813584620DOI: 10.36019/9780813584645-003Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_36019_9780813584645_003
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African Americans, American minorities, American philosophy, Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Applied philosophy, Artists, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Black feminist theory, Black people, Cognitive psychology, Critical theory, Cultural anthropology, Economic disciplines, Economics, Emotion, Emotional states, Employment, Ethnic groups, Ethnology, Fear, Feminist philosophy, Feminist theory, Fiction, Folklore, Folkloristics, Horror fiction, Labor economics, Literary genres, Literary studies, Literary theory, Literature, Metaphilosophy, Monsters, Mythological creatures, Occupations, Philosophy, Psychology, Social criticism, Social philosophy, Speculative fiction, Western philosophy, Writers, Zombies