African American Gothic : Screams from Shadowed Places

Name: African American Gothic
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137003508
Price: 19800 KES
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ISBN: 9781137003508

by M. Wester

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Format Hardback

Book Series American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

ISBN-10 1137003502

ISBN-13 9781137003508

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 9th, 2012

Print length 285 Pages

Weight 554 grams

Dimensions 22.20 x 14.00 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: North America (USA and Canada)18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 Relating to African American / Black American people Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Cultural studies Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Cultural studies Black & Asian studies

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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.

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.

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