American Gothic

New Interventions in a National Narrative

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ID19934880
AuthorsRobert K Martins (0000-0003-1275-1795)
EditorsRobert K Martin, Eric Savoy
Year1998
Publication date1998-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAmerican Gothic (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/j.ctt20q1zmk
OpenAlexW4232542957
Open LibraryOL38343954M
ISBN9781587293023
LanguageEN
Citations received15

Drawing widely on contemporary theory - particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva - this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburban life and the lifeblood of films such as The Exorcist and Fatal Attraction

American literature · Art · Art history · Literature · Narrative · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Vision · American and British Literature Analysis · Anthropology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Modern American Literature Studies · Psychology · American fiction · American fiction, history and criticism · American Horror tales · American Psychological fiction · Gothic fiction (literary genre) · Gothic fiction (literary genre), history and criticism · Gothic revival (Literature) · History and criticism · Horror tales · Horror tales, history and criticism · Narration (rhetoric) · National characteristics, American, in literature · Psychological fiction · Psychological fiction, history and criticism · Race relations in literature · united states · Women and literature

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