Description
| Product ID: | 9781912248544 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Darkly |
| Subtitle: | Black History and America's Gothic Soul |
| Authors: | Author: Leila Taylor |
| Page Count: | 206 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Cultural studies, Ethnic studies, Cultural studies, Black & Asian studies, USA, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America 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 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Repeater Books |
| Publisher Name: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-12 |