African American Gothic [electronic resource] : Screams from Shadowed Places /
Wester, M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
section 1. Early expressions of black gothic -- section 2. Black gothic at millennium's end.
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.
America—Literatures.
Literature   .
Cultural studies.
Literature—History and criticism.
African Americans.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
North American Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Cultural Studies.
Literary History.
African American Culture.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.