Gothic Landscapes of the South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20041589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Wynn Sivils (Iowa State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 83-93 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-47774-3_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2499327605 |
| ISBN | 9781137477743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Surveying the development of the Southern Gothic landscape, Sivils locates its origins in seventeenth-century captivity narratives by figures such as Garcilaso de la Vega and Captain John Smith. He then traces the cultural evolution of the Southern Gothic landscape through a selection of texts by Henry Clay Lewis, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and others. Referencing critics such as María del Pilar Blanco and Yi-Fu Tuan—and placing emphasis upon the portrayal of the swamp as related to issues of racial oppression—Sivils ultimately argues that these landscapes function as much more than just passive settings. They are, rather, dynamic sites of haunting that reflect, and at times participate in, the South’s legacy of human and environmental abuse
Art · Art history · Ecocriticism · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Flannery · Literature · Narrative · Oppression · Theology · Wilderness · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |