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Journal articles on the topic "African American Gothic fiction"

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Cucarella-Ramon, Vicent. "The black female slave takes literary revenge: Female gothic motifs against slavery in Hannah Crafts’s "The Bondwoman’s Narrative"." Journal of English Studies 13 (December 15, 2015): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.2786.

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The Bondwoman’s Narrative is a novel that functions as a story made up from Hannah Crafts’s experiences as a bondwoman and thus merges fact and fiction giving a thoroughly new account of slavery both committed to reality and fiction. Following and taking over the Gothic literary genre that spread in Europe as a reaction toward the Romantic spirit, Crafts uses it to denounce the degrading slavery system and, mainly, to scathingly attack the patriarchal roots that stigmatize black women as the ultimate victims. It is my contention that Hannah Crafts uses the female Gothic literary devices both to attack slavery and also to stand as a proper (African) American citizen capable of relating to the cultural outlets that American culture offered aiming to counteract the derogatory stereotypes that rendered African American women at the very bottom of the social ladder.

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Evans, Rebecca. "Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels." American Literature 93, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 445–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361265.

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Abstract This essay argues that contemporary African American novels turn to the gothic in order to dramatize the uncanny infrastructural and spatial afterlives of the plantation through a literary strategy it identifies as geomemory: a genre friction between mimetic and gothic modes in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s presence is fundamentally gothic. Geomemory, a trope evident across the emerging canon of contemporary African American fiction, allows writers to address the representational challenge of infrastructural and spatial violence via a defamiliarizing chronotope in which past, present, and future come into uneasy contact. Further, geomemory’s particular enmeshment with spatial design and infrastructure means that it moves from identifying the modern afterlife of the plantation to situating the present in the long context of plantation modernity.

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Amfreville, Marc. "Alienation in American Gothic Fiction." Anglophonia/Caliban 15, no. 1 (2004): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/calib.2004.1503.

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Hornung, A. ""Unstoppable" Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales." American Literature 78, no. 4 (December 1, 2006): 859–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-055.

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Chialant, Maria Teresa, Donald A. Ringe, and Roger C. Schlobin. "American Gothic: Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction." Modern Language Review 82, no. 1 (January 1987): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3729934.

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DeVirgilis, Megan. "Hearth and Home and Horror: Gothic Trappings in early C20th Latin American Short Fiction." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (July 2021): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0094.

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The Gothic short form in Latin America has yet to receive focused scholarly attention. Yet, despite no early Gothic novel tradition to speak of, the Gothic mode emerged in poetry and short fiction, representing particular anxieties and colonial/postcolonial realities specific to the region owing in part to a significant increase in periodicals. Focusing on two case studies – Clemente Palma's ‘La granja blanca’ (Peru, 1904) and Horacio Quiroga's ‘El almohadón de plumas’ (Uruguay, 1917) – this article will explore how Latin American authors classified as modern, modernista, and criollista were experimenting with Gothic forms, adapting the design of the traditional Gothic novel to intensify its effect and reach a wider readership. Demonstrating a particular influence of Poe, a unity of effect is created, one that suggests that the home is a place of horrors, not comfort, and the uniquely horrifying settings and plot ultimately challenge established moral codes and literary tendencies.

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Grove, Allen, Diane Long Hoeveler, and Tamar Heller. "Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 37, no. 2 (2004): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4144705.

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Mekler, L. Adam, Diane Long Hoeveler, and Tamar Heller. "Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 58, no. 2 (2004): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1566559.

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Griffin, Barbara L. J., and Maxine Lavon Montgomery. "The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction." MELUS 24, no. 1 (1999): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/467919.

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Boudreau, Kristin, and Maxine Lavon Montgomery. "The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction." American Literature 69, no. 1 (March 1997): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928187.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African American Gothic fiction"

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Williams, Eleanor. "The Divine and Miss Johanna." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1145555978.

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Hugo, Esthie. "Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20691.

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This project surveys representations of the African city in contemporary Nigerian and South African narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes's Nineveh (2011), which takes as its setting contemporary Cape Town; Lagoon (2014) by American-Nigerian author Nnedi Okorafor, who sets her tale in present-day Lagos; and Zoo City (2010) by Lauren Beukes, another South African author who locates her narrative in a near-future version of Johannesburg. I find that these fictions are bound by a shared investment in mobilising the apparatus of the Gothic genre to provide readers with a unique imagining of contemporary African urbanity. I argue that the Gothic urbanism which these texts unfold enables the ascendance of generative, anti-dualist modes of reading the contemporary African city that are simultaneously real and imagined, old and new, global and local, dark and light - modes that perform as much a discourse of the past as a dialogue on the future. The study concludes by making some reflections on the future-visions that these Gothic urban-texts elicit, imaginings that I argue engender useful reflection on the relationship between culture and environment, and thus prompt the contemporary reader to consider the global future - and, as such, situate Africa at the forefront of planetary discourse. I suggest that Nineveh, Lagoon and Zoo City produce not simply a Gothic envisioning of Africa's metropolitan centres, but also a budding Gothic aesthetic of the African Anthropocene. In contrast to the 1980's tradition of Gothic writing in Africa, these novels are opening up into the twenty-first century to reflect on the future of the African city - but also on the futures that lie beyond the urban, beyond culture, beyond the human.

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Green, Gary L. "The language of nightmare : a theory of American Gothic fiction /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1985.

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Rivera, Alexandra. "Human Monsters: Examining the Relationship Between the Posthuman Gothic and Gender in American Gothic Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1358.

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According to Michael Sean Bolton, the posthuman Gothic involves a fear of internal monsters that won't destroy humanity apocalyptically, but will instead redefine what it means to be human overall. These internal monsters reflect societal anxieties about the "other" gaining power and overtaking the current groups in power. The posthuman Gothic shows psychological horrors and transformations. Traditionally this genre has been used to theorize postmodern media and literary work by focusing on cyborgs and transhumanist medical advancements. However, the internal and psychological nature of posthumanism is fascinating and can more clearly manifest in a different Gothic setting, 1800s American Gothic Fiction. This subgenre of the Gothic melds well with the posthuman Gothic because unlike the Victorian Gothic, its supernatural entities are not literal; they are often figurative and symbolic, appearing through hallucinations. In this historical context, one can examine the dynamic in which the "human" is determined by a rational humanism that bases its human model on Western, white masculinity. Therefore, the other is clearly gendered and racialized. Margrit Shildrick offers an interesting analysis of the way women fit into this construction of the other because of their uncanniness and Gothic monstrosity. Three works of American Gothic fiction--George Lippard's The Quaker City, Edgar Allen Poe's "Ligeia," and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" portray these gendered power dynamics present within the posthuman Gothic when applied to the American Gothic; the female characters are either forced by patriarchy into becoming monstrous, or they were never fully human in the first place.

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Weissenberg, Clare. "This is not an exit : reading Bret Easton Ellis." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361020.

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Jenkins, Jennifer Lei. "Failed mothers and fallen houses: Gothic domesticity in nineteenth-century American fiction." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186122.

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This study examines the relation between gender and genre in four novels that chart the development of American domestic life from the Colonial to the Gilded Age. In these novels, the presence in the house of women--mothers, daughters, sisters, servants, slaves--often threatens the fathers' dynastic ambitions and subverts the formal intentions of the narrative. These women represent familiar but strange forces of the uncanny which lurk beneath the apparently placid surface of domestic narrative. In "house" novels by Hawthorne, Stowe, Alcott, and James, interactions of the uncanny feminine with dynastic concerns threaten not only the novel's social message of destiny and dynasty, but the traditional form of the novel itself. In The House of the Seven Gables, Hawthorne constructs a narrative in which patrician fathers and domestic daughters struggle for control of the House and its story. Slavery disrupts domestic life in Uncle Tom's Cabin, inverting and thereby perverting traditional notions of home and family and producing monstrous mothers and failed households. Alcott details the abuses and dangers of reified gender roles in family life, while depicting a young woman's attempt to reconstruct domesticity as a female community in Work. Finally, James displaces domestic concerns entirely from The Other House, portraying instead the violent nature of feminine desire unrestrained by tradition, community, or family. Story and telling work at cross-purposes in these novels, creating a tension between Romantic structures and realistic narrative strategies. These authors depart from the tropes of their times, using gothic devices to reveal monstrous mothers, uncanny children, and failed or fallen houses within the apparently conservative domestic novel. Such gothic devices transcend literary historians' distinctions of romance and sentimental fiction as respectively male and female stories and reveal the fundamentally subversive nature of domestic fiction. For these writers, the uncanny presence of the feminine produces a counternarrative of gender, class, and race, redefines the cultural boundaries of home and family, and exposes the fictive nature of social constructions of gender and domesticity.

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Janicker, Rebecca. "Halfway houses : liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44082/.

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Halfway Houses examines popular American Gothic fiction through a critical focus on what I call the ‘haunted house motif’. This motif, I argue, creates a distinctive narrative space, characterised by the key quality of liminality, in which historical events and processes impact upon the present. Haunted house stories provide imaginative opportunities to keep the past alive while highlighting the complexities of the culture in which they are written. My chosen authors, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, use the haunted house motif to engage with political and ideological perspectives important to an understanding of American history and culture. Analysing their fiction, I argue that in “The Dreams in the Witch House” (1933) Lovecraft uses haunting to address concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation in the early part of the twentieth century, endorsing both progressive and conservative ideologies. Similarly, Matheson’s haunting highlights issues of 1950s suburbanisation in A Stir of Echoes (1958) and changing social mores about the American family during the 1970s and 1980s in Earthbound (1982; 1989), critiquing conformist culture whilst stopping short of overturning it. Lastly, as a product of the counterculture, King explores new kinds of haunted spaces relevant to the American experience from the 1970s onwards. In The Shining (1977) he draws on haunting to problematise inequalities of masculinity, class and capitalism, and in Christine (1983), at a time of re- emerging conservative politics, he critiques Reaganite nostalgia for the supposed ‘golden age’ of the 1950s. At the close of the twentieth century, haunting in Bag of Bones (1998) reappraises American guilt about race and the legacy of slavery. Overall, my thesis shows that the haunted house motif adapts to the ever-changing conditions of American modernity and that the liminality of haunting addresses the concomitant social unease that such changes bring.

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Hale, Alison Tracy. "Pedagogical Gothic : education and national identity in early American sensational fiction, 1790-1830 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9393.

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Ashe, Bertram Duane. "From within the frame: Storytelling in African-American fiction." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623921.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the written representation of African-American spoken-voice storytelling in five fictional narratives published between the late nineteenth century and the late twentieth century: Charles W. Chesnutt's "Hot-Foot Hannibal," Zora Neale Hurston's their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Cade Bambara's "My Man Bovanne," and John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story.".;Using Walter Ong's suggestion that the relationship between storyteller and inside-the-text listener mirrors the hoped-for relationship between writer and readership, this study examines the way these writers grappled with these factors as they generated their texts.;By paying attention to the teller/listener-writer/readership relationship, this study examines the process whereby the narrative "frame" that historically "contained" and "mediated" the black spoken voice (either through a listener/narrator or a third-person narrator) modulated and developed throughout the century, as the frame opens and closes.;The results of this study suggest that what Robert Stepto calls the African-American "discourse of distrust" was a factor from the earliest fictions and is still very much a factor today.

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Liu, Tryphena Y. "Monsters Without to Monsters Within: The Transformation of the Supernatural from English to American Gothic Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/632.

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Because works of Gothic fiction were often disregarded as sensationalist and unsophisticated, my aim in this thesis is to explore the ways in which these works actually drew attention to real societal issues and fears, particularly anxieties around Otherness and identity and gender construction. I illustrate how the context in which authors were writing specifically influenced the way they portrayed the supernatural in their narratives, and how the differences in their portrayals speak to the authors’ distinct aims and the issues that they address. Because the supernatural ultimately became internalized in the American Gothic, peculiarly within female bodies, I focus mainly on the relationship between the supernatural and the female characters in the texts I examine. Through this historical exploration of the transformation of the supernatural, I argue that the supernatural became internalized in the American Gothic because it reflected national anxieties: although freed from the external threat of the patriarchal English government, Americans of the young republic still faced the dangers of individualism and the failure of the endeavor to establish their own government.

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Books on the topic "African American Gothic fiction"

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Lee, Tonya Lewis. Gotham diaries. New York: Hyperion, 2004.

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McCrary, Anthony Crystal, ed. Gotham diaries. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2005.

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Lee, Tonya Lewis. Gotham Diaries. New York: Hyperion, 2004.

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McCrary, Anthony Crystal, ed. Gotham diaries. New York: Hyperion, 2006.

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Wester, Maisha L. African American Gothic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281.

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Hamilton, Virginia. The house of Dies Drear. Carmel, Calif: Hampton-Brown, 2007.

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American Gothic. New York, USA: Corgi, 1996.

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Subjects of slavery, agents of change: Women and power in Gothic novels and slave narratives, 1790-1865. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

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Haggerty, George E. Gothic fiction/Gothic form. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.

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African American gothic: Screams from shadowed places. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "African American Gothic fiction"

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Wester, Maisha L. "Babo Speaks Back: White Violence and Black Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Black Fiction." In African American Gothic, 67–99. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_3.

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Lloyd-Smith, Allan Gardner. "The Gothic Uncanny." In Uncanny American Fiction, 18–34. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19754-5_2.

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Wester, Maisha L. "Introduction: The Gothic—Old and New, White and Black." In African American Gothic, 1–32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_1.

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Wester, Maisha L. "Haunted Lands and Gothic Voices: Slave Narrative Rewritings of Gothic Motifs." In African American Gothic, 35–66. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_2.

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Wester, Maisha L. "“The Dark Sunshine Aboveground”: Questions of Progress and Migration in Toomer and Ellison." In African American Gothic, 101–46. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_4.

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Wester, Maisha L. "“What, After All, Am I”: The Terrors of (Collective) Identity." In African American Gothic, 149–83. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_5.

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Wester, Maisha L. "“Murdered by Piece-Meal”: The Destruction of African American Family in Beloved." In African American Gothic, 185–214. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_6.

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Wester, Maisha L. "The Lost Voices of Tims Creek: Narrative Reinscription in A Visitation of Spirits and “Let the Dead Bury Their Dead”." In African American Gothic, 215–51. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_7.

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Wester, Maisha L. "Conclusion: African American Gothic—Uncovering a (Not So) New Tradition." In African American Gothic, 253–57. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137315281_8.

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Tucker, Jeffrey Allen. "African American Science Fiction." In A Companion to African American Literature, 360–75. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch24.

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Conference papers on the topic "African American Gothic fiction"

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Anisimov, Andrei. "GOTHIC FICTION TRADITIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE." In 4th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS Proceedings. STEF92 Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/62/s27.060.

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