As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie : constructing community in contemporary American horror fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holland-Toll, Linda J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [2001]
Subjects:	Horror tales, American > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Community life in literature. Communities in literature.

Table of Contents:

Two parts gore and one pinch walking dead: what exactly is horror fiction?
How does is work?: the strategies of exclusion as structure
Hunting the laughing tiger: communal containment strategies
He and we as monsters: breaking down the monster demarcations
The hidden monster: problems in construction and identity
Affirmative community: the golden retriever lives!
Compromised affirmations: inhabiting the corrupted community
The discomfort zone: we all live on maple street
Dystopias of the human heart: apocalypse, regeneration and redemption
Jailers of the mind: clapping the mind-forged manacles on ourselves and others
Dystopian societies: monstered bodies, the body politic, and the problems of complicity.