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Darkly
Black History and America's Gothic Soul
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Artikel-Nr:
9781912248544
Veröffentl:
2019
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.11.2019
Seiten:
206
Autor:
Leila Taylor
Gewicht:
208 g
Format:
195x131x17 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Leila Taylor
Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards -- the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story. Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: Blackness and America's Gothic Soul explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning. If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?