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Item Details
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AFRICAN AMERICAN GOTHIC
SCREAMS FROM SHADOWED PLACES |
| By: |
Maisha Wester |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137003502 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137003508 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
9 November, 2012 |
| Series: |
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Pages: |
285 |
| Description: |
"African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places is a new study of African American literary interventions into the gothic genre. The book investigates how African American authors have utilized the genre since its very beginnings in America to represent the real horrors of Black life in country haunted by racism. 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"-- |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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