The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
520 pages
978-1-3995-6481-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
To say that Rebecca Duncan's The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic is cutting edge doesn't do it justice. It is an astonishing collection that will reconfigure the field of Gothic studies and define its direction for years to come. It is an absolutely essential work. -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University A powerful, scholarly, and urgently necessary exposition of the necessity to recognise capitalism as always a world-system , attentive to the ways hat globalgothic must be understood in terms of centuries of stratifications of colonial and settler extractivist violence and its legacies. The collection also models brilliant critical methodologies hinging on regional rather than national approaches to the ways Gothic might be meaningful in particular contexts. Panelists noted how this collection has already transformed conversations and thinking within our field. -- Sara Wasson * Chair of the International Gothic Association's Justin D. Edwards Book Prize *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-6481-6 (9781399564816)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Rebecca Duncan is Researcher in Literature at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, where she co-ordinates the "Aesthetics of Empire" Research Cluster. She is the editor/co-editor of several collections, including 'Decolonising Gothic,' a special issue of Gothic Studies (Nov. 2022). Her recent work appears in the journals ARIEL (2020) and Interventions (2020; 2022), and in collections for Palgrave (2021), Bloomsbury (2022) and University of Minnesota Press (2022). Her first monograph, South African Gothic (2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. Rebecca is recipient of a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Project Grant (2021-24).
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Globalgothic Beyond Globalisation - Rebecca Duncan
Part 1: Approaches
1. Decolonial Gothic - Sheri-Marie Harrison
2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror, and Weird - Stephen Shapiro
3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e - Fred Botting
4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora - Maisha Wester
5. Engendering Globalgothic: The 'Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Monica Germana
6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies - Gregory Luke Chwala
7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecogothic Forms - Rebecca Duncan
8. Extractive Gothic - Sharae Deckard
Part 2: Issues
9. US Imperial Gothic - Kevin Corstorphine
10. Globalgothic and War - Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet
11. Terrorist Gothic - Steffen Hantke
12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream - Linnie Blake
13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity - Elsa Bouet
14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies - Chloe Germaine
15. Globalgothic, Viruses and Pandemics - Johan Hoeglund
16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market - Laura R. Kremmel
Part 3: Modes
17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: from Britain to Brazil - Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism - Lucie Armitt
19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing - Sofia Aatkar
20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic - Timothy Jones
21. Brexit Horror - Roger Luckhurst
22. Online Gothic - Xavier Aldana Reyes
Part 4: Regions and Geographies
23. Gothic and the Global South - Rebekah Cumpsty
24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed bodies in 21st Century Narratives - Ines Ordiz and Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaino
26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers, and the Aesthetics of Excess - Esthie Hugo
27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic - Katarzyna Ancuta
28. Desert Globalgothic - Rune Graulund
29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu's The House of Rajaniand Ayman Sikseck's Tishrin - Karen Grumberg
30. Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler
31. 'In Brussels no one can hear you scream': EU gothic - Barry Murnane
Coda
Planetary Gothic: An Invitation - Rebecca Duncan
Introduction: Globalgothic Beyond Globalisation - Rebecca Duncan
Part 1: Approaches
1. Decolonial Gothic - Sheri-Marie Harrison
2. The World-System of Global Gothic, Horror, and Weird - Stephen Shapiro
3. Economy of Shadows, Work of Death: Necropolitics, Slavery, Zombi/e - Fred Botting
4. Gothic and the Black Diaspora - Maisha Wester
5. Engendering Globalgothic: The 'Hideous Progeny of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Monica Germana
6. Queering Globalgothic Ecologies - Gregory Luke Chwala
7. Anthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecogothic Forms - Rebecca Duncan
8. Extractive Gothic - Sharae Deckard
Part 2: Issues
9. US Imperial Gothic - Kevin Corstorphine
10. Globalgothic and War - Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet
11. Terrorist Gothic - Steffen Hantke
12. Neoliberal Globalgothic: The Trump White House, the Alt-Right and the Long-Heralded Death of the Dream - Linnie Blake
13. New Weird Technologies: Subverting Neoliberal Globalisation through Hybridity - Elsa Bouet
14. Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies - Chloe Germaine
15. Globalgothic, Viruses and Pandemics - Johan Hoeglund
16. Medical Globalgothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market - Laura R. Kremmel
Part 3: Modes
17. Globalgothic Translations and Migrations: from Britain to Brazil - Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
18. Gothic Literary Travel and Global Tourism - Lucie Armitt
19. Gothic and Global Travel Writing - Sofia Aatkar
20. Folk Horror and the Globalgothic - Timothy Jones
21. Brexit Horror - Roger Luckhurst
22. Online Gothic - Xavier Aldana Reyes
Part 4: Regions and Geographies
23. Gothic and the Global South - Rebekah Cumpsty
24. Migration and the Gothic: Border Gothic - Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
25. Globalgothic Americas: Consuming and Consumed bodies in 21st Century Narratives - Ines Ordiz and Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaino
26. Tropical Gothic: Plantation Ecology, Commodity Frontiers, and the Aesthetics of Excess - Esthie Hugo
27. Asian Gothic: Asian Folklore and Globalgothic - Katarzyna Ancuta
28. Desert Globalgothic - Rune Graulund
29. Queer Gothic Narratives of Palestine in Alon Hilu's The House of Rajaniand Ayman Sikseck's Tishrin - Karen Grumberg
30. Nordic Gothic - Yvonne Leffler
31. 'In Brussels no one can hear you scream': EU gothic - Barry Murnane
Coda
Planetary Gothic: An Invitation - Rebecca Duncan