Canadian Gothic : Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention

Name: Canadian Gothic
Brand: University of Wales Press
SKU: 9780708327005
Price: 12600 KES
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ISBN: 9780708327005

by Cynthia Sugars

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Format Hardback

Book Series Gothic Literary Studies

ISBN-10 0708327001

ISBN-13 9780708327005

Publisher University of Wales Press

Imprint University of Wales Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 15th, 2014

Print length 325 Pages

Weight 506 grams

Dimensions 14.40 x 21.90 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Focusing on the ways that Canadian writers turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential, this volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada.

In Canadian Gothic, Cynthia Sugars explores the origins and history of the Canadian gothic tradition, tracing the ways that the gothic genre has been reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. Sugars demonstrates how, from very early on, the Gothic has held a precarious position in Canadian literature. Canada had long been perceived as an empty terrain unhaunted by a historical tradition and incapable of inspiring ghosts or gothic tales. Sugars argues instead that many Canadian writers have created a distinctly Canadian Gothic, one expressed in a postcolonial context and found in early aboriginal and diasporic writings. Among the authors she discusses are Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayson Choy, Hiromi Goto, Suzette Mayr, and Michael Ondaatje.

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