American gothic literature : a thematic study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead /

American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation, anxiety about power and property. The aristocratic villain is replaced by the striving, independent young man. The dispossession of Native Americans and African Americans ad...

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Main Author: Anolik, Ruth Bienstock, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
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505 0 |a Introduction: power and possession in American gothic literature -- The American woman: still possessed -- A new possession: slavery and beyond -- Return of the dead: the rebirth of the dispossessed Native American -- Dispossessed possessor: the displaced patriarch -- Masterless: the anxieties of freedom -- Return of the master: the new patriarch -- Textual (dis)possessions: Hannah crafts a textual labyrinth -- Intertextual voices in Gloria Naylor's Mama day: Shakespeare, the Bible and the dispossession of the reader -- Among women: convergences and divergences in gothic space -- Conclusion: toward a fourth century of American gothic. 
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