num_pages: 300
description: Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.Haunted houses bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards  the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.Part memoir and part cultural critique Darkly: The Black American Gothic explores American cultures inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy what does that look and sound like in Black America?
language: English
title: Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul
publisher: Repeater Books