
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
Corinna Lenhardt(Author)
transcript (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-3-8376-5154-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
1
1 s/w Abbildung
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
451 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-5154-6 (9783837651546)
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04/2020
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Person
Corinna Lenhardt, born 1982, received her PhD in American studies from Universität Münster, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include African American and ethnic studies, race, gender, and popular culture. Her book 'Savage Horrors' was awarded the Dissertationspreis 2020/2021 der Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung e.V.