Darkly: Black History and America's Gothic Soul

by Taylor, Leila
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ISBN: 9781912248544
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Overview

Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.

Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards -- the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.

Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: The Black American Gothic explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.

If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Taylor, Leila
  • ISBN: 9781912248544
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.70 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 206
  • Publication Year: 2019

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