The Edinburgh companion to globalgothic / edited by Rebecca Duncan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duncan, Rebecca, Dr, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 510 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

"Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena. Provides a comprehensive theorisation of globalgothic in the age of planetary crisis; Includes analyses of gothic fiction from six continents; Offers a range of new globalgothic approaches, modalities and regional permutations The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is the most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context. Examining texts from across six continents, the volume considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, chapters address gothic engagements with – among others – resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism, and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key – though sometimes complicit – register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Globalgothic beyond globalisation

Part I: Approaches

1. Decolonial gothic

2. The world-system of global gothic, horror and weird

3. Economy of shadows, work of death: necropolitics, slavery, zombi/e

4. Gothic and the black diaspora

5. Engendering globalgothic: The 'Hideous Progeny' of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

6. Queering globalgothic ecologies

7. Anthropocene gothic, capitalocene gothic: the politics of ecohorror

8. Extractive gothic

Part II: Issues

9. US imperial gothic

10. Globalgothic and war

11. Terrorist gothic

12. Neoliberal gobalgothic: The Trump white House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream

13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity

14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate intimacies

15. Pandemics and globalgothic

16. Medical globalgothic: organ harvesting and the red market

Part III: Modes

17. Globalgothic translations and migrations: from Britain to Brazil

18. Gothic literary travel and global tourism

19. Gothic and global travel writing

20. Folk horror and the globalgothic

21. Brexit gothic

22. Online gothic

Part IV: Regions and geographies

23. Gothic and the Global South

24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic

25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Narratives

26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation ecology, commodity frontiers and the aesthetics of excess

27. Asian gothic: Asian folklore and globalgothic

28. Desert Globalgothic

29. Queer gothic narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu's The house of Rajani and Ayman Sikseck's Tishrin

30. Nordic gothic

31. 'In Brussels no one can hear you scream': EU gothic

Coda

Planetary gothic: an Invitation.

Other Format:

Print version: Duncan, Rebecca The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic

ISBN:

1-3995-1059-2

9781399510592 (electronic book)