The Gothic other : racial and social constructions in the literary imagination

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The Gothic other : racial and social constructions in the literary imagination

edited by Ruth Bienstock Anolik and Douglas L. Howard

McFarland, c2004

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • White terror, black dreams : Gothic constructions of race in the nineteenth century / Eugenia DeLamotte
  • Slavery and civic recovery : Gothic interventions in Whitman and Weld / Katherine Henry
  • Cane : Jean Toomer's Gothic black modernism / Daphne Lamothe
  • Mixed blood couples : monsters and miscegenation in U.S. horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider
  • Diseased states, public minds : Native American ghosts in early national literature / Renée L. Bergland
  • Yellow peril, dark hero : Fu Manchu and the "Gothic bedevilment" of racist intent / Karen Kingsbury
  • A return to the caves : E.M. Forster's Gothic passage / Douglas L. Howard
  • Gothic routes, or the thrills of ethnography : Frances Calderon de la Barca's life in Mexico / Soledad Caballero
  • The infamous Svengali : George du Maurier's satanic Jew / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
  • The death of Zofloya, or, The Moor as epistemological limit / Stephanie Burley
  • "The vampyre" : romantic metaphysics and the aristocratic other / Gavin Budge
  • "Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's Schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin
  • The cage of obscene birds : the myth of the southern garden in Frederick Douglass's My bondage and my freedom / Joseph Bodziock
  • Gothic in the Himalayas : Powell and Pressburger's Black narcissus / John Stone
  • Defanging Dracula : the disappearing other in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula / Erik Marshall

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内容説明

Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.

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