African American gothic
Subtitle: screams from shadowed places
By: Maisha L. Wester
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781137003508
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; African American authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; History and criticism; American literature
Description: "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"--