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African American Gothic
Maisha L. Wester
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Description for African American Gothic
Paperback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349434268
SKU
V9781349434268
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About Maisha L. Wester
Maisha L. Wester is an assistant professor of English and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.
Reviews for African American Gothic
'While there have been partial studies of African American Gothic fictions, this excellent book is now the most lucid, comprehensive, and insightful account on this important subject. Nowhere else can readers so clearly grasp in so many examples so well analyzed how African American authors have radically transformed specifically Gothic conventions to make them profoundly symbolic of the horrors and ... Read more