Searching for Sycorax, 2017, p.95-126
2017
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror
- Ist Teil von
- Searching for Sycorax, 2017, p.95-126
- Ort / Verlag
- Ithaca, NY: Rutgers University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- At the climax of Bree Newsome’s short filmWake(2010), the black woman protagonist, Charmaine, rushes through the woods in her nightgown, hair unbound with harried, furtive glances behind her in the morning light. Charmaine’s world has crumbled around her—her father is dead, and she suspects her recent husband to be a special kind of evil and possibly inhuman—so she runs to what she believes is the source of her problems, the death spirit in the woods. Charmaine’s current temperament is markedly different from the cool confidence she possessed when she first met the otherworldly death dealer. Days
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780813584621, 0813584620DOI: 10.36019/9780813584645-007Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_36019_9780813584645_007
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- African American culture, African American studies, African Americans, American minorities, American studies, Anthropology, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Black people, Blues music, Cognitive psychology, Emotion, Emotional states, Ethnic groups, Ethnography, Ethnology, Fear, Fiction, Folk religions, Guitars, Horror fiction, Literary criticism, Literary genres, Literary studies, Literature, Lutes, Music, Musical instruments, Musical performance, North American folk music, Performing arts, Psychology, Religion, Speculative fiction, Spiritual belief systems, String instruments, Voodoo