Wester, Maisha L.
African American Gothic
1. Introduction: The Gothic—Old and New, White and Black
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Section 1. Early Expressions of Black Gothic
2. Haunted Lands and Gothic Voices: Slave Narrative Rewritings of Gothic Motifs
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3. Babo Speaks Back: White Violence and Black Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Black Fiction
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4. “The Dark Sunshine Aboveground”: Questions of Progress and Migration in Toomer and Ellison
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Section 2. Black Gothic at Millennium’s End
5. “What, After All, Am I”: The Terrors of (Collective) Identity
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6. “Murdered by Piece-Meal”: The Destruction of African American Family in
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7. The Lost Voices of Tims Creek: Narrative Reinscription in
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8. Conclusion: African American Gothic—Uncovering a (Not So) New Tradition
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Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary History, African American Culture, Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Author(s)
- Wester, Maisha L.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
- Page amount
- 292 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137315281
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-43426-8