Empire and the Gothic
Subtitle: the politics of genre
By: edited by Andrew Smith and William Hughes.
Contributors: Smith, Andrew, 1964-; Hughes, William, 1964-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Political fiction, English -- History and criticism; Decolonization in literature; Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism; Literary form
Description: This volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of post-colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for post-colonial ends.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Enlightenment Gothic and postcolonialism / Andrew Smith and William Hughes; title: Discovering Eastern horrors : Beckford, Maturin, and the discourse of travel literature / Massimiliano Demata; title: Charlotte Dacre's postcolonial moor / Kim Micasiw; title: Frankenstein and Devi's pterodactyl / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; title: Pushkin and Odoevsky : the 'Afro-Finnish' theme in Russian Gothic / Neil Cornwell; title: A singular invasion : revisiting the postcoloniality of Bram Stoker's Dracula / William Hughes; title: Beyond coloniality : death and the body in H. Rider Haggard / Andrew Smith; title: Horror, circus, and orientalism / Helen Stoddart; title: Burning down the master's (prison)-house : revolution and revelation in colonial and postcolonial female Gothic / Carol Davison; title: Crossing boundaries : the revision of Gothic paradigms in Heat and dust / Mariaconcetta Costantini; title: The ghastly and the ghostly : the Gothic farce of Farrell's Empire trilogy / Victor Sage; title: Arundhati Roy and the house of history / David Punter; title: The number of magic alternatives : Salman Rushdie's 1001 Gothic nights / Andrew Teverson; title: Coetzee and the animals : the quest for postcolonial grace / Dominic Head.