Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wester, M

Titel

African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places

Auflage

1st ed.

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 This book offers a new critique of contemporary African-American fiction and 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. 13 02 MAISHA L. WESTER is an Assistant Professor of English and American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, USA. 19 02 FILLS A GAP: Introduces a neglected aspect of African American literary theory. SHEDS NEW LIGHT: Offers a fresh intervention into the study of American Gothic literature. INTERDISCIPLINARY: Intersects with Queer theory/ discourse, Feminist studies, and Narrative studies. 04 02 PART I: EARLY EXPRESSIONS OF BLACK GOTHIC Haunted Lands and Gothic Voices: Slave Narrative Re-writings of Gothic Motifs Babo Speaks Back: White Violence, Black Resistance in Nineteenth Century Black Fiction 'The Dark Sunshine Aboveground': Questions of Progress and Migration in Ellison and Toomer PART II: BLACK GOTHIC AT MILLENIUM'S END 'What, after all, am I': The Terrors of (Collective) Identity 'Murdered By Piece-meal': The Destruction of African American Family in Beloved The Lost Voices of Tims Creek: Narrative Re-inscription in A Visitation of Spirits and 'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead'