Title African American gothic : screams from shadowed places / Maisha L. Wester

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Series American literature readings in the twenty-first century American literature readings in the 21st century. Contents 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' Summary 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 "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) -- History and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English -- USA. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA. Black & Asian studies -- English -- USA. Cultural studies -- English -- USA. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gothic & Romance. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Literature. American literature -- African American authors Gothic revival (Literature) Schwarze Literatur USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137315281 1137315288 9781349434268 1349434264

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