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African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places

African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places

Wester, M.

Hardcover

Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1137003502
ISBN13: 9781137003508
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.

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