The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination - Paperback

The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination - Paperback

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The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination - Paperback

The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination - Paperback

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by Ruth Bienstock Anolik (Editor), Douglas L. Howard (Editor)

Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors.

The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.

Author Biography

Ruth Bienstock Anolik teaches at Villanova University and writes extensively on the Gothic mode. Her articles have been published in Modern Language Studies, Studies in Jewish Literature, , and other journals and collections. Douglas L. Howard is the Writing Center Coordinator and an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York. His publications include articles in Literature and Theology, The Chronicle of Higher Education and This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos (Columbia University Press, 2002). He lives in Greenlawn, New York.

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.04 IN
Publication Date: July 15, 2004

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