Name: Savage Horrors
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SKU: 9783837651546
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Savage Horrors

By (author): Corinna Lenhardt

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Published: 30-Mar-2020
ISBN: 9783837651546

Paperback
288 Pages

Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Ethnic studies
Psychology
Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
Social & cultural history
History of the Americas
Colonialism & imperialism
National liberation & independence
post-colonialism
Theory of art
Media studies
The arts: general issues
Social
group or collective psychology
Gender studies
gender groups
Sociology: sexual relations
Sociology
British & Irish history
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Philosophy: aesthetics
Violence in society

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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.