Savage horrors : the intrinsic raciality of the American gothic / Corinna Lenhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenhardt, Corinna, author.

Series:

American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 29.

American culture studies ; volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Gothic revival (Literature)--United States.

Gothic revival (Literature).

United States.

Race in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]

Summary:

The American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively sedimented in the Gothic's uniquely binary structure. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic's anti-Black racism on the cultural discourses in the United States. At the same time, Savage Horrors traces the unflinching Black resistance back to the Gothic's intrinsic raciality. The African American Gothic, however, does not originate there but in the Black Atlantic - roughly a decade before the first Gothic novel was ever written on American soil.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

What Is the Gothic?

British Origins of the Savage Villain/Civil Hero Gotheme

Early WASP American Adaptations

Contemporary WASP American Iterations

Innovation and Resistance: The SV/CH Gotheme in Black Writing, 1789 to 1861

African American Gothic Today: Black Tradition and Reiterative Practices

Epilogue: The American Gothic, Raciality, and the Possibility of Reiterative "Unthought"

Works Cited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

3837651541

9783837651546

OCLC:

1156398147

Publisher Number:

9783837651546

99985422702