African American Gothic [electronic resource] : Screams from Shadowed Places / by M. Wester.

Wester, M.
African American Gothic
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137315281
Yer Numarası
EK/2897
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2012.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
VII, 285 p. online resource.
Dizi
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century, 2634-5803
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
America __ Literatures.
Literature.
Culture __ Study and teaching.
Literature __ History and criticism.
African Americans.
Culture.
Literature, Modern __ 18th century.
North American Literature.
World Literature.
Cultural Studies.
Literary History.
African American Culture.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.